Bulgarian Debora Mihaylova , who was brutally slashed with a mock knife by her boyfriend Georgi Georgiev , is one of the victims of violence mentioned by Ursula von der Leyen in her address on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of..
A protest march under the slogan "No more", organised by Feminist Mobilisations, will be held on today's International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women in front of the capital's Courthouse. The aim is to draw public and..
At a meeting in Paris, the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe proposed closing the post-monitoring dialogue with Bulgaria and following the developments in the country with regard to the rule of law, democracy..
From 6 p.m. in front of the courthouses in over 40 cities and towns in Bulgaria and in front of the Bulgarian embassies in Berlin, Paris and Copenhagen /from 8 p.m. local time/ protests have been called in support of a sadistically abused girl from the..
“Almost 1 in 10 women in Bulgaria say they have suffered threats of physical violence,” Minister of Labor and Social Policy Ivanka Shalapatova said at the forum “Measures for combating domestic and gender-based violence”, organized by the Animus..
At the General Affairs Council meeting on February 21, the Council decided by a qualified majority to request the consent of the European Parliament to adopt the decisions on the conclusion by the EU of the convention on preventing and combatting..
Hundreds of people protested in central Sofia on Thursday evening against violence against women on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women . The organizers of the rally demand adequate policies aimed at..
Dozens of buildings in Bulgaria were lit up in orange on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. In Sofia, the buildings of the National Palace of Culture and of the Sofia Opera and Ballet went orange. Their example..
The government will submit the Council of Europe Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence to parliament for ratification, said Deputy Prime Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva after today’s..
