Career
He served the maximum of two terms as the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Representative on Freedom of the Media from 2004 to 2010. Currently he is Adjunct Professor at the School of International & Public Affairs of Columbia Law School, New York and visiting professor at the Central European University (CEU), Department of Public Policy. Haraszti studied philosophy and literature at Budapest University.
In 1976 he co-founded the Hungarian Democratic Opposition Movement and in 1980 he became editor of the samizdat periodical Beszélő.
In 1989, Haraszti participated in the "roundtable" negotiations on transition to free elections. Haraszti"s books include A Worker in a Worker"s State and The Velvet Prison, both of which have been translated into several languages.
In 2012, Haraszti was appointed United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus.