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06-03-2019
Journalists and environmental activists against toxic waste

On the 11-14th of February, BlueLink, in partnership with the Russian Ecological Rights Center BELLONA, held a workshop for environmental journalists and activists from Russia and the EU.

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05-12-2018
EU new regulation on copyright should safeguard human rights and free speech.

BlueLink joined human rights and digital rights organisations who have sent an open letter to the European decision-makers asking them to add human rights safeguards to the proposed Copyright Directive on the Digital Single Market throughout the negotiation process.

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27-11-2018
BlueLink Supported the Protest Opposing Violence Against Women

BlueLink supported the civil "Protest Against Violence Against Women" that took place on November 26, 2018 in Sofia, Bulgaria. The protest was organized by the Bulgarian Fund for Women (BFW) for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

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21-11-2018
Rural Watch on Albania's extractive and energy industry launched

EcoPartners, Tirana, and BlueLink.net,  Bulgaria, launched Rural Watch - a  EU-sponsored initiative to improve quality of life and ensure a clean and safe environment by addressing pressing issues caused by extractive and energy industry (EEI)  in the rural areas of Albania.   Rural Watch aims to improve environmental performances of energy and extractive industries in

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20-10-2018
Civil Society Under Pressure Again

BlueLink's project Rememebering Europe: Civil Society Under Pressure Again was funded by the EU's Europe for Citizents programme, with the purpose of bringing up European remembrance of ostracism and pressure against civil society to help contemporary European civil society organisations (CSOs) who are under various forms of pressure at present.

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10-10-2018
Memorandum for Freedom and Democracy by Participants of the International Round Table 2018

From 7th to 9th October 2018, the ‘Peaceful Revolution Foundation’ (German Stiftung Friedliche
Revolution) hosted an International Round Table with the title ‘A Network of Freedom and
Democratic Movements’. Representatives of freedom and civil rights organizations, among them

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25-09-2018
Free Speech v.s Hate Speech in Bulgaria

Bluelink is launching a campaign "Free Speech v.s Hate Speech: Online security for Environmental, gender and human rights activists in Bulgaria" to reasearch ways, routs and consequences of online hate speech against civil society activists in Bulgaria as well as to give a start to effective counteractions that activsts can use in their work.

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20-09-2018
Toxic Waste Seminar: Journalists and Activists from Russia and the EU invited

Ecological rights centre BELLONA in partnership with the Bulgarian BlueLink Foundation, Association of the environmental journalists in Russia, Russian-German bureau of environmental information, Committee for saving Pechora, Perm organization for animal protection "Za Zverey" and Rostov organization "Eco-Logica" with the support of the

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24-05-2018
EU should stop data retention by members

BlueLink signed an open letter by digital rights' defenders to the EU's Commission, calling for action to protect fundamental rights enshrined in Articles 7, 8 and 11 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, as interpreted by the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Justice.

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21-05-2018
EU-Russia Civil Society Forum Supports Civil Society Organizations in Bulgaria

Members of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum from ten European countries signed a statement in support of Bulgarian civil society organizations, engaged in the struggle for rule of law and defending the environmental, democratic, socia

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