Bulgaria

February 16, 2016

Dispatches: What Bulgaria’s “Respect” for Refugees Really Looks Like

Bulgaria bears a “big responsibility” for protecting the European Union’s external borders and should do so “in full respect” of migrants’ human rights, says Europe’s senior minister for migration,

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February 16, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: What Bulgaria’s “Respect” for Refugees Really Looks Like

Lydia Gall
Researcher, Eastern Europe and Western Balkans
Refugee Rights

January 20, 2016 Report

Bulgaria: Pushbacks, Abuse at Borders
Refugee Rights

September 18, 2015 Commentary

Europe's Refugee Crisis Isn't Only About Syria

Peter Bouckaert
Director, Emergencies

Published In: Foreign Policy

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September 30, 2016 Video

HRC33: Item 6, UPR adoption of Hungary - Leila Swan

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March 31, 2015 Dispatches

Dispatches: Stopping ‘Pushbacks’ at Bulgaria’s Border

Lydia Gall
Researcher, Eastern Europe and Western Balkans
January 29, 2015 News Release

EU: Lackluster Commitment to Rights Protection
September 18, 2014 News Release

Bulgaria: New Evidence Syrians Forced Back to Turkey
September 17, 2014 Commentary

The EU Must Take More Responsibility for the Migrants Risking Their Lives to Reach Italy

Benjamin Ward
Deputy Director, Europe and Central Asia Division

Published In: The Independent
September 17, 2014 UPR

Bulgaria: UPR Submission September 2014
June 24, 2014 Commentary

Children Behind Bars, Traumatized and Afraid

Published In: Policy Review
May 19, 2014 Commentary

Bulgaria’s Ugly Underside: 'Containing' a Refugee Crisis

Bill Frelick
Director, Refugee Rights Program

Published In: EU Observer
May 15, 2014 Commentary

Europe’s Spectacle of Compassion for Migrants

Benjamin Ward
Deputy Director, Europe and Central Asia Division

Published In: Open Democracy
April 29, 2014 News Release

Bulgaria: Asylum Seekers Summarily Expelled
April 16, 2014 Commentary

Bulgaria's False Good News for Refugees

Bill Frelick
Director, Refugee Rights Program

Published In: Policy Review
January 7, 2014 Dispatches

Dispatches: Asylum Seekers in Deplorable Conditions in Bulgaria

Lydia Gall
Researcher, Eastern Europe and Western Balkans
November 4, 2013 Commentary

Europe: Time to Drop the Roma Myths

Eva Cossé
Assistant Researcher, Greece

Published In: CNN World

January 20, 2016

Bulgaria: Pushbacks, Abuse at Borders

Halt Summary Returns, Beatings, Robbery of Asylum Seekers
April 28, 2014

Containment Plan

Bulgaria’s Pushbacks and Detention of Syrian and Other Asylum Seekers and Migrants
October 8, 2002

Arms Trade, Human Rights, and European Union Enlargement: The Record of Candidate Countries

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Abandoned in Aleppo; Hungary's Contempt for Media Freedom; Rights Prizes Awarded

Daily Brief

October 11, 2016

Some 250,000 people have been "abandoned" by the siege in Aleppo.

Plus: Hungary has shown its contempt for media freedom; Controlling social media the old-fashioned way in Chechnya; Protesters on trial in Kazakhstan; Top rights prizes for Yazidi activist who escaped ISIS and for imprisoned Uyghur activist in China; Our #FreeThem campaign gets a boost; and acting to #EndChildMarriage.

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