KYUSTENDIL, Bulgaria -- To beat the heat, Arso Ganev recently took his family to a local pool in their hometown of Kyustendil on the western fringes of Bulgaria. Arriving late in the afternoon at a ...

As the calendar turns in Bulgaria, the Roma community celebrates a special occasion that shines with color, music, and tradition - the Roma New Year, or Bango Vasil, observed on January 14. The ...

The European Court of Human Rights ruled in favour of 56 people who were thrown out of a village near Plovdiv because of their Roma origin after an altercation with locals in 2019. Children in the ...

Authorities started flattening illegally-built Roma homes in a Sofia neighbourhood despite a European Court of Human Rights ruling, which said demolition should not proceed until a legal challenge is ...

SOFIA, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Several hundred young Bulgarians rallied for a third night in major cities on Wednesday to protest against the Balkan country's large Roma minority, but the demonstrations ...

Over the past 15 years, the sale of babies in Bulgaria's poor Roma communities has become almost commonplace. With help from traffickers, destitute parents are selling their newborns in neighbouring ...

Standing Rapporteur on Human Rights for the Council of Europe, Gudrun Mosler-Törnström, on Friday denounced the recent demolition of Roma houses in the Zaharna Fabrika area of Bulgaria’s capital, ...

(Adds U.N. Human Rights office concerned by anti-Roma rallies) SOFIA, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Bulgarian prosecutors on Tuesday said they had charged the grandson of Roma clan leader Kiril Rashkov with ...