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The United Nations office of the High Commission for Refugees has acknowledged the “significant efforts” made recently by the Bulgarian authorities and their partners to improve living conditions for asylum […]
There were systematic violations of human rights in Bulgaria in 2013, watchdog group the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee said in its annual report, relea ...
European countries must not transfer any asylum seekers to Bulgaria until the country truly improves its appalling reception conditions and addresses ...
Refugees housed at the shelter in Harmanli protested during a visit by European Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmström, demanding that the grant ...
Bulgaria has made progress in improving living conditions for refugees and more effort is needed to improve the situation of the most vulnerable groups and speed procedures for granting refugee […]
Sixty-three per cent of the total 7145 asylum applicants in Bulgaria in 2013 were from Syria, according to a report by European Union statistics office Eurostat released on March 24 […]
Fences and walls are short-term measures that will not solve the systemic problems in the management of migration processes, European Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmström said in a comment on […]
Nine military officers will face punishment ranging from reprimands to dismissal over the controversial project to build a fence on the Bulgarian-Turkish border, a project that has run over deadline […]
Living conditions in refugee camps in Bulgaria are improving and more accommodation is on the way, but the process of granting official refugee status continues to be slow. There was […]
Prosecutors in Bulgaria have started pre-trial proceedings in connection with the spending of money that had been intended for the building of a tent camp for 800 refugees. This emerged […]
