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Women's rights and gender equality on the agenda of the Bulgarian Parliament

(June 2001 – April 2002) With the financial support of Westminster Foundation for Democracy, UK and MATRA program of the Dutch Embassy. The project was supported also by the NEWW and Hans Seidel Founfation

The project started on the 1st of June 2001 just before the Parliamentarian elections in June 2001 when for the first time in Bulgarian history the percentage of women in the Parliament increased up to 26 %.

The main goals of the Project are:

  • To lobby for the establishing of a gender caucus within the Bulgarian Parliament;
  • To provide a forum in which a foreign MPs, including MPs from the European Parliament can share with their Bulgarian colleagues measures and strategies on gender equality as well as to discuss the EU requirements to the country in accession;
  • To identify the perspectives and strategies for further lobbying for gender issues.

    • Women parliamentarians from the European Parliament, Poland, The Kingdom of Netherlands, Lithuania, Slovenia, Germany, representatives of the European Women's Lobby, of Parliamentarians for Global Actions, as well as the representatives of the Foreign embassies in the Republic of Bulgaria participated to the international parliamentarian conferences and round tables.

    The results of a legal, comparative, sociological and political science research, performed in the framework of the project are published in the publication “Equal rights - present and future”.

    05 June 2001

     
     
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