Urgent Action Fund is a feminist fund with the vision to protect, strengthen and sustain women and trans* human rights defenders at critical moments. The Fund knows how critical it is to support women’s rights organizations that are doing valuable work during these...
Bulgarian Fund for Women (BFW) launched its informational campaign “#Every4th: see the true face of violence” in the National Assembly to celebrate the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women – 25th November. The event, taking place under...
Sofia Queer Forum 2015 invites you to take part in the initiative ‘Circus! My different family’ with a text, drawing, video, painting, objects, photos, sound or any other means of expressions. The project is not strictly dedicated to professionals but to...
At a meeting of the Municipal Council of Antonovo, held on August 27th, 2015, Chairman of the Council, Mr Hajredin Mehmedov introduced a draft of a Programme for the development of women’s movement. Following a debate on the topic of gender mainstreaming,...
Over 5,500 women from all over the country took advantage of free ultrasound examinations for breast cancer, thanks to AVON’s ‘From Love to Life’ campaign, whose coordinator is the Bulgarian Fund for Women. This is what the statistics show from seven...
Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” started offering a M.A. degree a few years back that is not yet very famous but extraordinarily interesting as well as taught at a very high level – Women’s and Gender History (MATILDA European Masters degree). You have two...
Where in our society are hiding the most serious problemsregarding equality? The problems that are the most serious are the ones related to stereotypes and gender roles, i.e. how women and men should act. It’s truly absurd, but even nowadays there are people that...
The investment in women is an investment in the whole society and is a path towards economic prosperity is what the data, presented in the Bulgarian Fund for Women discussion “Why (we) invest in women?”, recently shows. The event took place on 2nd of July 2015 in the...
Оn 2nd of July 2015 in the Home of Europe BFW organizes a discussion “Why (we) invest in women?” with the participation of the Minister of labour and social policy Ivailo Kalfin, the Chargé d’affaires at Norwegian embassy in Bulgaria Geir Sjøberg, the Chairwoman...
