Bulgaria

The national reports concerning the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child for children with intellectual disabilities can be downloaded here.

This study explores the representation and human rights situation of Romani children in institutional care in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Romania and Slovakia. It follows a report issued by the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) in 2007 entitled, Dis-Interest of the Child: Romani Children in the Hungarian Child Protection System, which analysed the situation of Romani children in State child protection institutions in Hungary.

This Manual provides training guidelines incorporating the peer education method. It has been developed within the third phase of the regional Child Trafficking Response Programme, managed by Save the Children in Albania, and with the participation of volunteers from Partners Bulgaria Foundation Resource Centre in the town of Kjustendil. This Manual aims at complementing adolescent activities within a programme for prevention of some of the risks encountered by adolescents nowadays. Its objective is twofold - on one hand, this Manual offers relevant information on each of the themes, and on the other hand, it enables young people to develop skills for independent living in order to protect themselves in risk situations.

United Nation Children's Fund report is about children in Eastern Europe and Central Asia who are deprived of parental care. Despite recent reforms, which have led to an increase in the number of children being placed in alternative families – for example with foster parents, guardians or adoptive parents – the majority of these children are still living in institutions.