The legislation lacks a definition of abuse or violence in the name of honor and a data collection system. This is to review the project in the next two years. Leading partner in the project is Center for Sustainable Communities Development. The other two partners are KUN Center for Equality and Diversity, Norway and Women Lawyers Association, Bulgaria.
Project name: Social and Legal Actions to Combat Honor Related Abuses
Leading partner: Center for Sustainable Communities Development
Partners: KUN Center for Equality and Diversity - https://www.kun.no/english.html
Women’s Advocates Association - https://www.womenlawyers.bg/
Budget: 161 687,49 euro
Duration: 14 months (September 2019 – October 2020)
The shortage of skilled labour[1] is one of the most severe constraints affecting economic growth in Bulgaria in recent years. This is a constantly recurring problem posed by employers’ organisations, and it gradually embraces all sectors of the economy and professions, but also different companies - from micro-enterprises to large companies. There are various reasons for this - a permanently deteriorating demographic picture, demotivation of a significant number of the working-age population (analysed in a study by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the Institute of Economics and International Relations in a survey in 2017), and the quality education and vocational training that is inadequate for the labour market.
Labor mediator trainings in Stara Zagora was completed successfully. Young ladies dusccussed together with their trainers Stanimira Hadjimitova and Valentina Vasilyonova an important issue as labor contracts, fake job applications, how to seek support in a foreign country, etc.
Just as the Covid-19 crisis has transformed the daily lives of most people across the planet, it has highlighted many of the traits of the socio-economic system that predated the virus but were very largely ignored. In particular, it has highlighted the precariousness of many of the most essential workers to the continued existence of society, those ensuring health and care, food cultivation and harvesting, goods delivery and waste disposal.
On July 30, 31 and August 1, a training of local labor mediators on the BRIGHT project was held in Montana. It was attended by 17 women, including health mediators from 5 municipalities in Montana region, youth mediators, representatives of the Montana District Administration - specialists in regional development and gender equality, representatives of the Local Commission for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, representatives of NGOs, the Municipal Council on Narcotic Substances and other institutions.
On 16 and 17 December in Milan CSCD’s team took part in a kick-off meeting on BRIGHT project (Building RIGHTs-based and Innovative Governance for EU mobile women). During the two days representatives of the five partners shared their ideas on topics as women at risk of exploitation, social and civic exclusion with a lack of awareness on their EU citizenship rights.
