In May 2008, the Hungarian organisations of persons with disabilities and their supporters decided to form a Disability Caucus for the purposes of making civil society’s own, parallel report on the status of the rights of persons with disabilities vis-à-vis the Convention. Following the model of the International Disability Caucus, which was a key party in the negotiations towards the Convention, the Hungarian Caucus is a flexible, non-hierarchic association, based on solidarity and subsidiarity.