Bulgaria’s capital Sofia hosts today the final forum under the project Boosting the Capacity of the Bulgarian Ombudsman for Independent Monitoring and Promotion of Child Rights. Bulgaria and Norway exchanged experience and good practices within the project held in partnership with UNICEF- Norway and UNICEF-Bulgaria. Norway was the first country to establish a separate Ombudsman for Children. Within the frameworks of the project Bulgaria’s Ombudsman Maya Manolova fulfilled a series of events and forums dedicated to children, including the new national campaign Our Child aimed at promoting children’s rights and the institution of the Bulgarian Ombudsman as an advocate and guardian of adolescents.
“This parliament is like quicksand – war in the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, a split Bulgarian Socialist Party, Velichine falling apart,” said former PM Nikolay Denkov, chair of the parliamentary group of We Continue the Change/Democratic..
“No towns or villages are at risk from the fires that have broken out around the country,” Chief Commissioner Alexander Dzhartov, Director of the General Directorate Fire Safety and Civil Protection said for the BNR. Partial state of..
A draft decision by the Council of Ministers, published for discussion, envisages a poverty line of 638 Leva (a little over EUR 325). The poverty line for this year stands at 526 Leva (a little over EUR 268), or an increase of 21%. The proposal..
After 17 MPs from the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, MRF, were expelled, among them the party’s other co-chair Dzevdet Chakarov, MRF MP Ahmed..
On Friday the weather will be sunny and hot. Clouds will form in the afternoon but there will only be isolated showers in some parts in Eastern..
The European Commission has approved state aid amounting to EUR 142 million (BGN 278 million) to support the energy sector, BNR’s correspondent in..
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