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an independent NGO promoting: social justice, gender equality and human rights through research, education, legislative changes, advocacy programs
an independent NGO promoting: social justice, gender equality and human rights through research, education, legislative changes, advocacy programs
05 March 2008
Recently, a EP-sponsored conference on the role of women in decision-taking, took place in Sofia. Presently, a mere 23% of MPs are women, which is even 5% down from their number in the previous 39th Parliament, Iliana Stoicheva from the Gender Research Foundation in Bulgaria, told BNR. The number of women in decision-taking posts in local government is still smaller. A sheer 10% of all mayors, elected in the last 28 October local government elections, are women. This has been no departure from traditional trends in Bulgaria, commented Iliana Stoicheva.