Bulgaria has a low proportion of reports of domestic violence and women should be encouraged to report such cases, United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women Dubravka Šimonovic said at a press conference. According to her, we have been witnessing tolerance and insensitivity to violence against women. Šimonovic called on Bulgaria to create a new comprehensive national plan for action against violence against all women and girls, moreover that according to statistics of the UN, 33 Bulgarian women were killed by a family member or intimate partner in 2018. Šimonovic has also called on Bulgaria to review its decision on the Istanbul Convention and to adopt it, because she believed that this was the country's way towards adopting the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
The provision of assistance to Ukraine is proceeding according to schedule, caretaker Minister of Defense Atanas Zapryanov said in the town of Pazardzhik. "So far, the packages voted by the government have been dispatched. The last package, which..
Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot this afternoon after a government meeting in the town of Handlova, about 180 km from Bratislava. A post on Fico's Facebook profile indicates that the prime minister is in life-threatening condition...
The government will provide EUR 19.9 million (BGN 39 million) in additional funding to increase the salaries of academic staff in state universities from 1 January 2024. The decision was made after the lecturers threatened to go on strike on May 20...
Household electricity prices could go up by less than 30% as of 1 July, 2024, Energy Minister Vladimir Malinov announced at a briefing at the Ministry..
More than two years ago, Russia’s Gazprom Export suspended gas deliveries under the contract with Bulgaria’s Bulgargaz. Russia suspends natural..
On Friday minimum temperatures in the country will range from 6° to 11° C., for Sofia 8° C. In the morning there will be fog in the Western part of..
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