Nacho Strigulev Originally published in Bulgarian at Bluelink.net In a world where solidarity seems rare and institutions seem heartless, a civil society organization in Stara…
Pavel Antonov Originally published in Bulgarian at Bluelink.net Human rights lawyer Denitsa Lyubenova on the resistance against the “hate law” in the summer of 2024,…
Originally published in Bulgarian at Bluelink.net When the world was on pause in 2020, the Impact Drive Foundation team boldly pressed the “play” button. They…
Belarus withdraws from landmark UN environmental rights treaty Following a heated exchange of arguments, Minsk has ultimately withdrawn from the Aarhus Convention – the primary…
Amending the Council of Europe’s (CoE) sanctioning rules to restore Russia’s voting rights in its Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) has divided democracy and human rights advocates….
Oyub Titiev, Director of the Regional Branch of the Human Rights Centre “Memorial” in Grozny, Chechen Republic in Russia, accused in a falsified case of…
Bulgaria’s civil society celebrated a major victory for nature protection and the rule of law when the country’s Supreme Administrative Court ultimately rejected an environmental…
Minority members of the Romanian Parliament are struggling to promote dialogue with civil society on waste management at a time when the majority in power…
Repressive legislation, negative media coverage, lack of recognition and imposition of service functions—having to deal with issues that are normally the responsibility of the state such…
In the first major legislative moves since Prime Minister Viktor Orbán won reelection this spring, the Hungarian Parliament on June 20 passed a package of…
