Romania and Bulgaria fully join Europe’s borderless Schengen zone

Jan 02, 2025, at 05:35 pm

Amid celebrations, Romania and Bulgaria have become full members of the European Union’s free-travel Schengen area scrapping land border controls.

Killing and rape of Bulgarian investigative reporter is an ‘outrage’ - UNESCO chief

Oct 10, 2018, at 09:31 am

New York, Oct 10 (IBNS): The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), has condemned the “brutal” killing of investigative reporter Victoria Marinova, whose body was found on Saturday in the Bulgarian city of Ruse, bearing signs of suffocation and sexual assault.

UN rights chief sees ‘worrying signs’ in Bulgaria’s detention regime for migrants

Aug 12, 2016, at 04:36 am

New York, Aug 11 (Just Earth News): United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Thursday expressed serious concern that virtually all people entering Bulgaria in an “irregular manner” are subjected to detention, and that they could be prosecuted and even jailed if they try to leave, “placing many of them in an invidious Catch-22 situation.”

France and Bulgaria must halt forced evictions of Roma: UN rights chief

Sep 12, 2015, at 03:04 pm

New York, Sept 12 (IBNS): Ongoing forced evictions of Roma and Travellers in a number of European States, including France and Bulgaria, are cause for serious concern, the United Nations human rights chief said on Friday.

UN lauds Bulgaria's effort to improve conditions of asylum-seekers

Apr 16, 2014, at 06:11 pm

New York, Apr 16 (IBNS): The United Nations refugee agency applauded on Tuesday the "significant efforts" made recently by the Bulgarian authorities and their partners to improve living conditions for asylum seekers in the country.