Our colleague, Magdi Birtha has contributed with a chapter to a newly published book Recognising Human Rights in Different Cultural Contexts: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), edited by Emily Kakoullis and Kelley Johnson and published by Palgrave Macmillan. Magdi's chapter is discussing the implementation of Article 19 of the CRPD in Hungary and its impact on the deinstitutionalisation process so far. A socio-historical-cultural appraoch is taken to understand why institutional care for persons with disabilities is still persistent in Hungary and describes the challenges encountered in the first attempts to close them.