{"id":3590,"date":"2020-04-07T11:12:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T08:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilitis.org\/?p=3590"},"modified":"2022-04-15T19:58:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T16:58:17","slug":"the-council-of-europe-commissioner-for-human-rights-stronger-commitment-needed-to-combat-racism-fight-gender-stereotypes-and-increase-media-freedom-in-bulgaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilitis.org\/en\/2020\/04\/07\/the-council-of-europe-commissioner-for-human-rights-stronger-commitment-needed-to-combat-racism-fight-gender-stereotypes-and-increase-media-freedom-in-bulgaria\/","title":{"rendered":"The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights: Stronger commitment needed to combat racism, fight gender stereotypes and increase media freedom in Bulgaria"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text]Today the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatovi\u0107, published a report on the visit to Bulgaria she carried out in November 2019. The report focuses on racism, intolerance and discrimination; violence against women and domestic violence; and media freedom.
\nThe Commissioner considers that there is a need for a political and cultural shift in the way minority groups are treated and portrayed in Bulgaria, where hate speech, discrimination and hostility against Roma, LGBTI people and persons belonging to other minority groups remain an issue of acute concern. She calls on the authorities to react vigorously to incidents of hate speech, including by high-level politicians, enhance legal protection against discrimination and hate crimes, and effectively investigate and prosecute such crimes.<\/p>\n

Read the Commissioner for Human Rights’ report following her visit to Bulgaria from 25 to 29 November 2019.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

R<\/a>ead the comments of the Bulgarian authorities on the Commissioner’s report<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1586247126480{margin-top: 50px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_video link=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=67&v=6exa1QRjhrA&feature=emb_title” el_width=”70″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text]Today the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatovi\u0107, published a report on the visit to Bulgaria she carried out in November 2019. The report focuses on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilitis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilitis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilitis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilitis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilitis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bilitis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5806,"href":"https:\/\/bilitis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions\/5806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilitis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilitis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilitis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilitis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}