Just a day after Slovakia elected its first female president, Zuzana Čaputová, the country’s parliament has dealt a blow to women’s rights by rejecting the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and...
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International Women’s Day, March 8, is a public holiday in some countries, an occasion for men to offer women flowers in others, and largely ignored elsewhere. In...
Homophobic vandals in the Bulgarian city of Varna have defaced a number of billboards promoting tolerance towards the LGBT community. Depicting same-sex couples hugging...
“Romania needs to strengthen its institutional framework to better protect the rights of persons with disabilities, and should step up the efforts to combat violence...
“To build a more cohesive society, the Estonian authorities should strengthen the protection of women from violence, close the gender pay gap and uphold the rights of...
Human rights groups in Bulgaria have blasted a decision by the country’s Constitutional Court declaring an international convention protecting women from domestic...
