Bulgarian Justice for Children Thirty Years After the Convention on the Rights of the Child

At the end of November 2019, the legal community of Bulgaria met in Sofia to mark the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (the Convention) by the UN General Assembly, ratified by the Republic of Bulgaria by decision of the Supreme National Assembly on 11.04. 1991 (in force since 3.07.1991). The anniversary was an occasion to assess the extent to which in Bulgaria the Convention is understood, accepted and implemented in the spirit embedded in its text by the UN Member States that have adopted it.

The conference with international participation "Bulgarian Justice for Children Thirty Years After the Convention on the Rights of the Child", held on November 28-29, 2019 in Sofia, was attended by over 120 representatives of various legal professions from the country and abroad – magistrates, lawyers, academics, human rights defenders and civil society organizations. The organizers of this large-scale forum were the Bulgarian Center for Non-Profit Law Foundation (BCNL), the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the Supreme Bar Council (SACA), the Institute of State and Law at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IDP-BAS). The event took place with the support of UNICEF Bulgaria.

The booklet with articles that we have prepared for the conference together with the recommendations to the adminstration is available here.