Please check this section regularly – information will be updated. More detailed information about the concrete cases of roma rights violations approached under the Roma rights monitoringproject is available by request on the presentede-mail addresses, we will be happy to answer your questions!
Roma under the Social Care and Health Care systems
Roma minority in Bulgaria are disproportionally dependant on the Social care system to maintain the minimal living standard but their access to health and social services are restricted by both discriminatory attitude and prejudices among the governmental officials and legislative requirements constituting barriers towards receiving social and health services. Monitoring Roma rights we can clearly testify that Roma social rights are violated on daily bases due both – social workers reluctance to pay necessary attention to their struggles and legislative criteria to access social system set for as the barrier that Roma persons cannot overcome themselves... Read more
Cases conserning State Social Agency
In cooperation with Mrs. Daniela Stankova, Director of the SSA – Svishtov it is established dispute resolution mechanism for cases concerning Roma rights violation conducted by the SSA employees. Due to the case specifics, the litigation approach is hardly applicable to them. SSA is the governmental structure responsible to administrate governmental relief funds to people with disability, to provide urgent grants /i.e. for medications, transportation, school etc.... Read More
Cases conserning State Labour Agency
Forcing changes in the social security legal act Bulgarian government adopts changes that left vast proportion of Roma outside the social care system. Most of the Roma in the Municipality of Polski Trambesh /likewise throughout Bulgaria/ were dependant on the monthly social welfare allowances and governmental job programmes such as “from social welfare to employment”. Introduced legislative changes caused...Read more
Case of Cyril Mitkov Najdenov
Mr. Cyril Najdenov is a local Roma, 28 years old man form Karantci village, Polski Trambesh Municipality. In the beginning of March 2009 he approaches the local Labour Agency at the municipality centre – Polski Trambesh Town to apply for a job in Germany. His friend has told him that there is an announcement in the Labour Agency that a German employer recruits manual labour workers for the construction site job...Read more
Casse of Anche Petrova Hristova
Mrs. Anche Petrova Hristova, Romani women from the village of Radanovo has a menthally-disabled child. The Roma mediator in Radanovo village assisted her in fulfilling of applications for receiving a pension for the child and to register him in a school for mentally disabled children. With these applications she approaches the social worker from the Stae Social Agency, department Polski Trambesh (Mrs. Kina Petrova) during her weekly...Read more
Case of Stefanka Kostadinova Ivanova
Stefanka Ivanova, 50 year old Roma women from Polski Trambesh, long time unemployed that lives on welfare monthly allowances. During the night on 09.01.2008 she has received a paralytic stroke. She was admitted at the hospital on the next day and after 7 days hospitalization she was discharged from the hospital. On 16.01.2008 Mrs. Rumyana Dimitrova, head of the local children garden in Obedinenie village, request a meeting with...Read more
Case of Donka Sergeeva
Ms. Donka Sergeeva, Romani teenage female from the orphanage in Posabina village has left the orphanage and stayed with her uncle in Radanovo village. She decides to leave her uncle’s house and go to Germany to look for work. After a few months she came back in Bulgaria looking for help from her uncle as during her stay in Germany she get pregnant and shortly after coming in Radanovo village she had deliver a child. Her uncle, Mr. Akiff Mehmedov, is a long time unemployed Roma...Read more
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