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18 years since the establishment of the BHC

A three-member panel of the Supreme Administrative court delivered a judgement against the Minister of Health and ordered him to fulfil the obligations accruing from Regulation No. 34, which regulates the provision of expensive medicines to cancer patients, patients suffering from rare diseases and kidney diseases.

Police suspect dies from gunshot in the head after car chase in the streets of Sofia

Joint declaration of four human rights organizations on the brutal beating by a group of neo-Nazis of protesters on their way to a protest meeting against the illegal detention of foreigners at the Busmantsi Detention Center for Undocumented Aliens

A day before the 3rd Sofia Gay Pride the organisers announced that they are preparing themselves for incidents.

On the eve of the third round of the EU-Turkmenistan Human Rights Dialogue, to take place in Ashgabad on 18 June 2010, several leading European human rights NGOs, including the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, appeal to the EU to use this meeting as an opportunity to publicly reiterate support for Turkmen civil society and to request concrete measures from Turkmen authorities to ensure that Turkmen civil society activists can carry out their important work without fear and repression.

Position of the BAA over recent disturbing incidents instigated and carried out by neo-nazi groups in Bulgaria.

The Romani community continued to face multiple and widespread discrimination, as well as the threat of forced eviction from their homes. The prolonged detention of asylum-seekers contravened EU legislation. The European Court of Human Rights found that Bulgaria had violated the prohibition of torture and degrading treatment in the European Convention on Human Rights.

The parliamentary heated discussions repeated last year's far-right rhetoric