Bulgaria

Freedom of association

BULGARIA: MPs Submitted a Draft Law on Controlling Foreign Funding for NGOs

Update 27 July 2020: Bulgarian NGOs write to European institutions alerting of increased pressure on civil society in the country ...
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BULGARIA: Smear campaign against civil society organisations intensifies

Over sixty Bulgarian NGOs alert of a new wave of attacks against civil society organizations taking place in Bulgaria. Since ...
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BULGARIA: Concern over legal proceedings for de-registration of the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee

(Council of Europe) On behalf of the Conference of INGOs and its Expert Council on NGO Law, we express our ...
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BULGARIA: Citizen Participation Forum, the Bulgarian coalition strengthening support for the work of civil organizations.

(Civitates) “If the media repeats negative messages about Bulgarian NGOs time after time, people start to believe them.”- Iva Taralezhkova, Board ...
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BULGARIA: Party in the governing coalition threatens de-registration of Bulgarian Helsinki Committee – civil society denounces the attack

UPDATE - 4 October 2019: The European Civic Forum joins other organisations from all across Europe to condemn the attack ...
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Freedom of expression

BULGARIA – Recent Attacks Highlight Bulgaria’s Unsolved Homophobia Problem

Article originally published on 2 October 2020 in Balkan Insight. Videos of youngsters assaulting young LGBT people in plain sight ...
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BULGARIA: Investigative journalist Viktoria Marinova raped and murdered

(Mapping media freedom) 6 October 2018 – Viktoria Marinova, a TV journalist who reported on an investigation into alleged corruption ...
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BULGARIA: The media in 2017 through the eyes of journalists and experts

(Association of European Journalists - Bulgaria) At the end of each year, the Association of European Journalists – Bulgaria (AEJ-Bulgaria) asks ...
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BULGARIA: the country assumes EU Presidenct under cloud of concern over media freedom

(CIVICUS Monitor) Expression #ThisWeek Bulgaria’s EU presidency offers Western Balkans unique opportunity https://t.co/KTdkCXPPtF— EURACTIV (@EURACTIV) January 19, 2018 Bulgaria assumed ...
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BULGARIA: Vice Prime Minister wants to expulse Ska Keller out of the Country

(Ska Keller's website) (Bulgarian below) The Bulgarian government coalition party National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria today published a statement signed ...
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Freedom of assembly

BULGARIA – Protests Continue Peacefully after Tension Escalated in Sofia on the Second of September

Analysis for Civic Space Watch by Zahari Iankov, lawyer, Bulgarian Center for Not-for-Profit Law Context – Political Actions Since the end of the initial state ...
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THE RIGHT TO FREE ASSEMBLY IN THE BALKANS

(European Center For Not-For-Profit Law - ECNL) In recent years there have been numerous high profile cycles of assemblies across ...
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BULGARIA: Report on the right to freedom of peaceful assembly

(European Center for Not-for-Profit Law) The right to freedom of peaceful assembly in Bulgaria is regulated at a constitutional and legislative ...
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BULGARIA: the country assumes EU Presidenct under cloud of concern over media freedom