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 […]

The 2018 Civil Society Organization Sustainability Index for Bulgaria

On September 30, 2019 in the course of the election campaign for local elections, the nationalist party IMRO-BNM has sent a signal to the Prosecutor General to cease the activity of the human rights organization – Bulgarian Helsinki Committee. We consider such public attacks for inadmissible, they erode the public trust in the nongovernmental sector and they are used for political purposes which contradict the public interest.

The exhibition presents the author's award winning photographs, illustrations and texts in "Civil Alarm Clock" 2019 contest. All art works tell about real events and reflect the personal attitude of the creators to the power of civic association for common causes, the energy of the protests and the people in them, the meaning of freedom of speech and the struggle for it.

The report examines the current framework of the right to free assembly in Bulgaria on constitutional, legislative and subordinate level, follows some of the most emblematic protests for 2018, includes findings from interviews with representatives of local administrations, police, organizers of protests, as well as recommendations for improving the normative base and practice on the right to free assembly.

The 2017 Civil Society Organization Sustainability Report for Bulgaria

The 2016 Civil Society Organization Sustainability Report for Bulgaria

The monograph "Incapacity to Act of Natural Persons. Contemporary Challenges" by Stoyan Stavru is a study of civil-law matters of incapacity to act of natural persons in the context of the proposed reform of Bulgarian personal law. It examines the boundaries of the potential contained in the legal notion of interdiction as an approach of restriction and exclusion, as well as the opportunities to have it replaced by a diverse set of supportive and inclusive legal tools.

The monograph “Incapacity to Act of Natural Persons. Contemporary Challenges” by Sr. Stoyan Stavru is a study of civil-law matters of incapacity to act of natural persons in the context of the proposed reform of Bulgarian personal law. The book poses the question concerning the inability/ incapacity (to act) by keeping it “on the border” between law and philosophy.

The 2015 Civil Society Organization Sustainability Report for Bulgaria