News from BlueLink

Joint Statement by the Steering Committee of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum and the Board of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum ahead of the Meeting of Foreign Affairs Ministers, 27-28 August 2020

BlueLink supported a common opinion of Bulgarian civil society organisations, expressing a clear position against a Bill on Amendments to the Law on Non-Profit Legal Entities (LNPO).

BlueLink presented key findings about the role of the Internet in Gender Based Violence in Bulgaria within a meeting with research organisations and individuals at the Second convening of the Feminist Internet Research Network (FIRN).

Washington, DC (May 28, 2020) – Former US Vice President Al Gore and The Climate Reality Project will host the first-ever Climate Reality Leadership Corps Global Training from July 18-26, 2020. The training will be entirely online, including live, prescheduled, and on-demand sessions, allowing attendees from around the world to take part.

On May 12, 2020 24 European civil society organisations sent a common letter to the European Commission, highlighting and inquiring about the controversies regarding Estonian Government’s investment in and plans to expand the shale oil sector, in relation to EU-related agreements and funds. BlueLink is among the organisations supporting the letter.

Human and social rights are a key part of the green political agenda in Europe. It is not a surprise, given that access to a clean and healthy environment has been established as a human right in over 100 countries around the world. One of them is Bulgaria.

The brutal attack on Bulgarian journalist and editor-in-chief of the 168 Hours newspaper Slavi Angelov on 17 March, 2020, exposed the failure of the Bulgarian rule of law in one of its main duties: to ensure the security and rule of law. This is how Pavel Antonov, managing editor and co-founder of BlueLink, analyzes the bloody crime in an editorial on our electronic publication Euromegdan.

Results on role of the Internet in gender based violence as well as possible actions to overcome it presented BlueLink’s Deputy Editor Velina Barova at the annual Democracy Conference in Varna, Bulgaria. The civic forum, organised by the Public Center for Environment and Sustainable Development, Za Zemiata and arch. Kalina Miteva, took place on February 29 and March 1, 2020.

A civil society forum in Sofia proposed effective steps to break new walls around access to justice and civic participation, and to overcome pressure against environmental and human defenders. The event took place on October 17, 2019 in the House of Europe in Sofia.