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WHEN: Sofia, November 22, 2011 – 9 a.m. WHERE: Sheraton Sofia Hotel Balkan, Royal Hall Goals: Encouraging and motivating women to participate in achieving socially important causes through voluntary work and expert and financial support. Promoting good donor practices that involv... [Read More]

In 2011 Bulgarian Fund for Women together with OAK Foundation continues working for the women’s and girls’ empowerment. We created 13 Gender Equality Youth Clubs all over Bulgaria. You can find them in Veliko Tarnovo, Plovdiv, Varna, Lovech, Haskovo, Kuklen, Pazardzhik, Blagoevgr... [Read More]

‘If I had to have sex ten times a day with strangers for a living, at what point would I start to feel sick? From the beginning surely.’ So concludes the voice-over of a thought-provoking video clip launched today by the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) as part of its campaign to put... [Read More]

Bulgarian Fund for Women is an organization that fights for and that supports not only other non-governmental organizations but also all kinds of initiatives connected to Women’s Rights and to reaching actual equity in all spheres of life, and to eliminating the existing fo... [Read More]

Within the framework of the international campaign “16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence (November 25- December 10) the Bulgarian Fund for Women launched its newfundraising campaign – Fundraising campaign for women and children victims of domestic violence. It will start o... [Read More]

Commit: We are All Responsible In 1991 when 23 women from around the world met together at the first Women’s Global Leadership Institute at the Center for Women’s Global Leadership and envisioned the 16 Days Campaign, it was unlikely that any of them could have foreseen the incre... [Read More]

Violence against women derived from the traditional patterns of behavior characterized by the misuse of power and control by one person over another. Violence against women is a crucial obstacle for the full realization of their human rights, moreover causes health decline and ha... [Read More]

The Bulgarian Fund for Women started its new 5-year Youth Program “Young Women Can Do It”, with the support of Mama Cash, the Netherlands. The Program is designed to provide young women and girls, including those of Roma ethnic origin, with knowledge and organizationa... [Read More]

Current situation and main challenges Over the past three years there has been a steady tendency for increasing the impact of stereotypes for female beauty, public notions about the “perfect and proportionate body” and fatal prejudices that have a very negative effect... [Read More]

Current situatuion and main challenges The involvement of young people in public and civil sectors is an integral part of the overall development of democratic societies and poses the question of effective exercising of civil, political and cultural rights and of citizenship as a... [Read More]