Bulgaria

September 6, 2018

Bulgaria Stands up for the Rights of People With Disabilities

This is the story of how a key political body within the Council of Europe sought to circumvent a United Nations Convention protecting the rights of people with disabilities. It’s also about how one of its members, Bulgaria, is pushing back against the move.

Disability Rights

September 6, 2018 Dispatches

Bulgaria Stands up for the Rights of People With Disabilities

Lea Labaki
Junior Researcher and Advocate, Disability Rights Division
Arms

When we released Cluster Munition Monitor 2018 last Thursday, we highlighted the untarnished compliance record regarding the convention’s core prohibitions. One of the most visible examples is seen in stockpile destruction, where all of the first states with cluster munitions to ratify the convention destroyed their stocks within the convention’s eight-year deadline.

September 3, 2018 News Release

Cluster Munition Coalition Statement on Stockpile Destruction to the Convention on Cluster Munitions Eighth Meeting of States Parties in Geneva
LGBT Rights

July 30, 2018 Commentary

From the Americas to the Far East, Courts Are Advancing LGBT Rights

Boris Dittrich
Advocacy Director, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program

Published In: The Advocate

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September 30, 2016 Video

HRC33: Item 6, UPR adoption of Hungary - Leila Swan

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January 20, 2016

Bulgaria: Pushbacks, Abuse at Borders

Halt Summary Returns, Beatings, Robbery of Asylum Seekers
April 28, 2014

Containment Plan

Bulgaria’s Pushbacks and Detention of Syrian and Other Asylum Seekers and Migrants
October 8, 2002

Arms Trade, Human Rights, and European Union Enlargement: The Record of Candidate Countries

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February 5, 2018 Commentary

EU needs commitment to rights in West Balkans

Todor Gardos
Researcher, Europe and Central Asia Division

Published In: euobserver
June 5, 2017 Dispatches

Sofia LGBT Pride Should Showcase a Tolerant Bulgaria

Kyle Knight
Researcher, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program
February 16, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: What Bulgaria’s “Respect” for Refugees Really Looks Like

Lydia Gall
Researcher, Eastern Europe and Western Balkans
January 20, 2016 Report

Bulgaria: Pushbacks, Abuse at Borders
September 18, 2015 Commentary

Europe's Refugee Crisis Isn't Only About Syria

Peter Bouckaert
Director, Emergencies

Published In: Foreign Policy
March 31, 2015 Dispatches

Dispatches: Stopping ‘Pushbacks’ at Bulgaria’s Border

Lydia Gall
Researcher, Eastern Europe and Western Balkans
January 29, 2015 News Release

EU: Lackluster Commitment to Rights Protection
September 18, 2014 News Release

Bulgaria: New Evidence Syrians Forced Back to Turkey
September 17, 2014 Commentary

The EU Must Take More Responsibility for the Migrants Risking Their Lives to Reach Italy

Benjamin Ward
Deputy Director, Europe and Central Asia Division

Published In: The Independent
September 17, 2014 UPR

Bulgaria: UPR Submission September 2014
June 24, 2014 Commentary

Children Behind Bars, Traumatized and Afraid

Published In: Policy Review
May 19, 2014 Commentary

Bulgaria’s Ugly Underside: 'Containing' a Refugee Crisis

Bill Frelick
Director, Refugee Rights Program

Published In: EU Observer

Lydia Gall

Researcher, Eastern Europe and Western Balkans LydsG

Daily Brief

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