26.01.2018EGAM and the Museum of Romani culture in Brno to sign Memorandum of Understanding to define the future of the site of the concentration camp in Lety
Tomorrow in Prague, EGAM - the European Grassroots Antiracist Movement, and the Museum of Romani Culture in Brno will sign a Memorandum of Understanding to define together the future of the site of the former concentration camp in Lety.
Taking place at 18h CET at the French Institute in Prague, the ceremony will be part of a larger International Conference on the Holocaust and the Roma Holocaust, held one day before the International Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust.
This Memorandum of Understanding, called “Dignity for Lety!”, will formalize the cooperation...
22.01.2018Students visited the ministries and embassies for the Roma New Year - Vasilitsa
The Chairman of the Parliament Mrs. Tsveta Karayancheva, Deputy Prime Minister Mr. Tomislav Donchev, the minister of labour and social policy Mr. Bisser Petkov, the minister of health Kiril Ananiev, the vice ministers of education and science, of youth and sports, of regional development, the ministry of foreign affairs, the ombudsman Mrs. Maya Manolova, the embassy of USA, UK, Denmark, Austria, Belgium, Spain, France, South Africa and India, as well as many other organizations and agencies welcomed on 15th and 16th of January Bulgarian and Roma students on the occasion of the...
12.01.2018Draft Decree amending and supplementing the legislative acts of the Council of Ministers on key changes in the methodology of financing schools and kindergartens
The Ministry of Education and Science has published for public discussion a Draft Decree amending and supplementing the Council of Ministers' legislative acts concerning key changes in the methodology of financing schools and kindergartens. The Decree will implement in practice important changes in the system of financing pre-school and school education, as defined by the State Budget Act 2018 and the accompanying changes to the Law on Pre-school and School Education
The Draft Decree provides:
- introducing new, additional criteria for allocating delegated budgets -...
08.01.2018The Istanbul Convention does not introduce 'third sex' and is not a propaganda tool
On 3 January, the Council of Ministers adopted a draft decision on a proposal to the National Assembly to ratify the Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention and Combating of Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (so called the Istanbul Convention), which caused an unexplained reaction due to manipulative political interpretations aimed at shifting the focus and debate from the real problem, namely that 1 million of nearly 4 million Bulgarians are harassed at home, for 54% of Bulgarians sexual abusement being a serious problem ; that 70% of respondents aged between...
04.01.2018New in schools' delegated budgets by 2018
The new year 2018 begins with a new, reformed system for funding schools and kindergartens. It also provides opportunities for development of schools and kindergartens with fewer pupils (especially in rural areas), in order to cease the chronic underfinancing they have faced over the past decade. This new system, which remains within the delegated budgets, and yet refines them so as to reduce the disproportion in funding between urban and rural schools, was one of the main political demands of the Minister of Education Krasimir Valchev. The key parameters of its implementation...
