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A while ago experts of the Bulgarian Labour and Social Policy Ministry claimed that the current Child Protection Act did not match the pulse of time. Therefore a bill was drafted, but the presentation to the public stirred heated debates. Some of the articles in the draft bill provoked outright outrage, which transpired even at the discussion held by Bulgaria’s Economic and Social Council.

Women are less paid than men, it is harder for them to grow in hierarchy, and only a third of all companies in Bulgaria are managed or owned by women, according to statistics.

1,560 out of 2,155 child abuse cases for 2011 were registered in the children’s families, Kalin Kamenov, acting chairperson of the State Agency for Child Protection, said at a discussion about a child protection bill.

The Transparency without Borders association presented an analysis on the latest presidential and local elections that took place in October 2011 in Bulgaria. The results reveal that in 2011 the trends and ways of electoral offences found out in the previous polls in 2009 persisted. However, 20 years after the transition to democracy elections in Bulgaria have become more transparent.

There is a joint project of the Social Ministry and the State Agency for Child Protection, aiming at a gradual closure of orphanages, development of foster care and creation of family-type accommodations. “The fact that this process starts with orphanages raises additional questions among the society,” explains Director of the MBMD Institute for Social Surveys and Marketing Mira Radeva.

Women in the EU are being paid an average 16.4% less than men, according to the European Commission’s latest data on the matter from 2010, announced on occasion of Equal Pay Day.