Family Positions

This joint statement on COVID-19 by Eurochild, International Step by Step Association, Roma Education Fund and the European Public Health Alliance.

This joint statement on COVID-19 is co-owned by Eurochild, International Step by Step Association, Roma Education Fund and the European Public Health Alliance.

Immediate action and increased cooperation among all actors is required in order to diminish the impact of crises on the children in our region and safeguard their physical and psychological health

Children who are segregated in short or long term residential care are now more vulnerable than ever to human rights violations

National Network for Children calls in an open letter for concrete, urgent measures and actions by the government and state institutions to limit the risk for the life and future of Bulgarian children and their families.

National Network for Children calls in an open letter for concrete, urgent measures and actions by the government and state institutions to limit the risk for the life and future[…]

The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, published a report on the visit to Bulgaria she carried out in November 2019

Over 60 Bulgarian civil society organisations call on representatives of EU institutions to call out attack against civil society organisations.

The campaign in Bulgaria went so far that in the end the prime minister there decided to stop the draft of the new strategy for the child, which would have introduced for the first time a holistic approach for family policy

Of all the tough issues parents face, discipline is tops.

There is a need for a political and cultural shift as regards the treatment and image of minority groups in Bulgaria

There is an urgent need to uphold the principle that domestic violence is not a private matter, but a public concern, the expert said,

National Network for Children raises concerns around national policies becoming hostage to speculation, disinformation and fake news.

The children on climate strike are right: their lives should not be sacrificed to satisfy our greed

This statement was signed by 233 organisations.

The Future of Europe and young people is one of the main topics of the Bulgarian EU Presidency. Bulgaria declared to put the investment in early childhood development at the scope of the member countries as an important factor for building children social and life competences, their later professional development and contribution to the local economics.

We are convinced that deinstitutionalization does not end with the closure of old institutions and moving children into a new type of residential care.

From the formalisation of children’s rights under EU laws, to the provision of services that have directly improved children’s lives, children in Europe are in a better place, thanks to collective work of the different institutions and people that make up the European Union.

The National Network for Children of Bulgaria warns about the systematic violation of the refugee children’s rights especially of those who are unaccompanied. It gives as an example the last[…]

We hope that these observations will be considered during the discussions that will take place at the European Committee on Democracy and Governance and the subsequent drafts of the text of the Guidelines.