“The MPs must criminalise, as a matter of urgency, acts aiming to violate human dignity,” lawyer Mihail Ekimjiev stated in an interview with public service TV BNT. The members of parliament suspended their summer break after protests broke..
MPs will interrupt their summer vacation in order to adopt changes to the Criminal Code and the Domestic Violence Protection Act. On August 3, the legal committee will hold an extraordinary meeting, while an extraordinary plenary..
A national protest has began in more than 40 cities across the country after a case of violence against an 18-year-old girl from Stara Zagora . A month ago she was attacked and abused in her home, as her 26-year-old friend Georgi Georgiev was..
The number of calls made to the national helpline for victims of violence has gone up in the first six months of the year – to 960 in January-June, as compared to 794 during the same period of last year. Girl needs 400 stitches after being..
National Council for the Prevention and Protection of Domestic Violence will maintain a register of cases across the country, MPs have decided, finalizing changes to the Protection against Domestic Violence Act. In addition, 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..
We are seeing an escalation of domestic violence after the coronavirus epidemic, a survey on gender-based domestic violence shows. One of the main conclusions is that Bulgarian families only regard physical violence as a problem, and all other forms..
In the city of Dobrich, North-Eastern Bulgaria, a march in defence of women's rights was held mottoed "Not one more" . Participants demanded changes to the Domestic Violence Act and mechanisms to prevent domestic violence and to support its victims...
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..
With protests in Sofia and Plovdiv, various organizations mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women today. Unofficial statistics indicate that more than 20 murders of women were committed this year as a..
