Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation

Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation is an NGO of public utility that promotes social equality and women’s human rights in Bulgaria through research, education and advocacy programs.

The BGRF is founded in June 1998 in Sofia. The team of the Foundation consists of lawyers, academics, experts in advocacy, education, monitoring violations of human rights, lobbying for legislative changes, preparing publications, networking.

The BGRF has branches in Plovdiv, Haskovo, Gorna Oryahovitza. Since 2001 the BGRF has a youth department.

OUR main goals:

1. Promote and facilitate the achievement of a gender balanced society in Bulgaria based on equal representation of women and men;
2. Disseminate information and raise the awareness about women’s rights and gender issues in Bulgaria;
3. Identify, protect, and lobby for specific needs and problems of young people;
4. Support and participate to working groups drafting new legislation in the field of equal opportunities of women and men and in the field of eradicating violence against women and discrimination.
5. Advocate for the achievement of compliance with the Universal standards in the field of human rights and the universally recognized values of democracy.