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Let’s welcome the New 2021 with Solidarity, Compassion and Strength
- December 22, 2020
It is becoming increasingly clear that what humanity will fight for in 2021 will be collective immunity - literally and figuratively.... [Read More]
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The youngest participant in the BFW Community Development Program, Veronica Georgieva from Pleven talks about her successful project
- December 16, 2020
In November 2019, the Bulgarian Fund for Women launched a Community Development Program, which aims to support community leaders and active people in their efforts to unite and mobilize their communities, to promote initiatives related to uniting citizens for a better social envi... [Read More]
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How the Emergency Fund for Combating Domestic Violence helped dozens of families in Plovdiv and the region?
- November 3, 2020
By the end of May 2020, when the lives of many families were turned upside down by the COVID-19 pandemic in Bulgaria, as well as all over the world, there was a huge increase in domestic violence. That is why, the Bulgarian Fund for Women initiated the Emergency Fund for Combatin... [Read More]
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Why have so many countries in emerging Europe failed to take action to combat domestic violence?
- June 3, 2020
Almost one in three women worldwide experience physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner or sexual violence by someone else in their lifetime. ... [Read More]
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When do dreams come true?
- May 6, 2020
When do dreams come true? The answer can be provided by Lady Bikers MPowered Bulgaria Association. The idea for an organization was born a year before its establishment. ... [Read More]
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UN urges Bulgaria to allocate more state funding for shelters for women survivours of domestic violence
- March 24, 2020
Bulgaria reports to the UN every four years on its progress in protecting women's rights in Bulgaria, following the monitoring mechanism of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women .... [Read More]
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Dialogue, not bans
- September 3, 2019
Statutory prohibition on ad lib termination of pregnancy will neither solve the demographic deficit nor serve as a prevention measure... [Read More]
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Should women be naked in order to get into museums and galleries?
- June 10, 2019
This legendary question asked the Guerrilla Girls, an anonymous group of feminist female artists devoted to fighting sexism and racism in the art world in 1989. Whether it is still standing today and how has the situation changed in the art scene in the last 30 years we’ll ... [Read More]
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Entrepreneurship among young women encouraged by a project funded by BFW
- September 25, 2018
10 young women and girls aged 15-35 from the town of Lom will be included in an initiative for empowering through entrepreneurship. Within the WENTPower project the participants will receive training, mentoring and consulting for developing a business plan and two of them will al... [Read More]
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Murder by the book
- August 24, 2017
“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”... [Read More]
