134.226
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop standard operating procedures for asylum seekers and refugees to assist with correctly identifying asylum seekers in particularly vulnerable situations and provide them with safe accommodation and adequate support
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
134.223
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt further measures in combating human trafficking and protecting the rights of victims as well as the rights of migrants
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Migrants
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
134.221
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Improve access to services and provide greater incentives for employment for people with a disability
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Labour rights
- Right to development
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
134.186
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen efforts to prevent crimes against children and to protect the rights of children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
134.180
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Hold targeted consultations with families, children and civil society organizations to strengthen measures for reducing child poverty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
- Poverty
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
134.179
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen efforts to reduce child-related offences
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
134.178
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take further steps to update the national strategy for the child that supports development and investment in community-based and family-based care for children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
134.169
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Improve enforcement of laws criminalizing rape, including by conducting thorough investigations, compiling statistical data and prosecuting all acts of gender-based violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
134.166
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Increase funding to provide shelter and support for victims of domestic violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
134.165
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Commence a widespread educational campaign on domestic violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
134.162
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take steps to eliminate gender-based violence, including by ratifying the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention) and increasing support to NGO-run crisis centres
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Civil society
- Gender-based violence
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
134.149
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to provide adequate funding for shelters, counselling, legal aid and other social services for victims of domestic violence and their children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
134.140
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Sustain steps to promote girls’ rights to education and women’s empowerment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
134.138
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Promote the employment of women in fields where they remain underrepresented and continue efforts to address the wage gap between men and women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
134.134
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take corrective measures to combat school dropouts, considering that one of the root causes of human trafficking is extreme poverty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Poverty
- Right to education
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
134.124
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Allocate adequate resources to ensure full implementation of the national programme for improving mother and child health care (2014–2020)
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
134.121
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Allocate adequate resources to ensure full implementation of the national programme for improving mother and child health care
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
134.113
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen efforts to ensure the effective implementation of the national anti-trafficking strategy, and ensure that the National Commission for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings is provided with sufficient funds to carry out its functions
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
134.112
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Create a mechanism to identify potential victims of human trafficking by strengthening collaboration with relevant NGOs
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
134.111
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take effective measures to prevent and eradicate human trafficking by prosecuting and punishing perpetrators promptly
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Impunity
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
134.104
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Improve the support available to victims of modern slavery, facilitating their reintegration into society through provision of appropriate health care and legal and financial support, and paying particular attention to support for child victims, including children in care institutions, Roma children and unaccompanied foreign minors
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Access to justice
- Minority rights
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
134.103
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take effective measures to prevent and eradicate human trafficking, investigate all allegations of trafficking, and prosecute and punish perpetrators
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
134.93
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Investigate and hold to account those who threaten, intimidate and harm journalists, civil society and peaceful protesters, including the reporters who were injured in the protests in August 2020 in Sofia
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
- Freedom of assembly
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
134.66
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend the legislation by adopting a definition of torture, and criminalize torture in a manner fully compliant with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
134.64
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that women, children, persons with disabilities, and indigenous and local communities are meaningfully engaged in the development and implementation of climate change and disaster risk reduction policies
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Environment and human rights
- Indigenous peoples
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
134.63
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Intensify efforts to develop and strengthen the necessary legislative frameworks that address cross-sectoral environmental challenges, including climate change adaptation and mitigation frameworks
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Environment and human rights
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
134.61
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen efforts to eliminate discrimination and violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity, actual or perceived, in compliance with its human rights obligations
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
134.54
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Conduct adequate investigations and prosecutions into incidents of hate speech with due regard to motives by requiring courts to regularly report, record and make public cases where hate speech or hate crimes have or have not been considered in court proceedings
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Violent extremism and human rights
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
134.48
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Legislate or amend the current Family Code in order to include civil partnership available to both different-sex and same-sex couples
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
134.47
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen education on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex rights and legislate to protect against hate crimes against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021