Update 27 July 2020: Bulgarian NGOs write to European institutions alerting of increased pressure on civil society in the country. Civic organisations report: On 1 July 2020 a group of…
Extract from article originally published on Al-Jazeera, 20 March 2020 - accessible here Bulgaria's parliament has voted after a heated debate to allow the military to help curb the movement…
Over sixty Bulgarian NGOs alert of a new wave of attacks against civil society organizations taking place in Bulgaria. Since early 2018, the Bulgarian democratic civil society has experienced an…
(European Center For Not-For-Profit Law - ECNL) In recent years there have been numerous high profile cycles of assemblies across the Balkan region including protests throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina during…
(Council of Europe) On behalf of the Conference of INGOs and its Expert Council on NGO Law, we express our concern regarding legal proceedings for de-registration of the Bulgarian Helsinki…
(Civitates) “If the media repeats negative messages about Bulgarian NGOs time after time, people start to believe them.”- Iva Taralezhkova, Board Chair of the Citizen Participation Forum For several years now,…
UPDATE - 4 October 2019: The European Civic Forum joins other organisations from all across Europe to condemn the attack against the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee: **** (Civic Solidarity - 1…
(European Center for Not-for-Profit Law) The right to freedom of peaceful assembly in Bulgaria is regulated at a constitutional and legislative level in the Bulgarian legal framework – in the Constitution…
(Mapping media freedom) 6 October 2018 – Viktoria Marinova, a TV journalist who reported on an investigation into alleged corruption involving EU funds, has been raped and murdered in the…
(Association of European Journalists - Bulgaria) At the end of each year, the Association of European Journalists – Bulgaria (AEJ-Bulgaria) asks journalists and media experts to share their thoughts about the…