Andras Biro who is the ‘patriarch of Hungarian Civil Society’ dies aged 98. He was a key figure in rebuilding Hungary’s Civil Society.
He empowered Roma minority poverty alleviation, grassroots activism and environmental protection.
Biro was born in Bulgaria in 1925 and migrated to Hungary as a child where he lived until the 1956 uprising.
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He later moved to Paris where he served as an editor of Food and Agriculture Organization Magazine Ceres and founded environmental journal known as Mazingira.
In 1978, Biro moved to Mexico where he consulted for the United Nations and for the local NGOs. In 1985, he returned to Budapest where he established the Hungarian Foundation for Self Reliance.
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