Bulgaria has recently witnessed violence against Roma for the first time. There were violent demonstrations in the capital Sofia and 14 other cities, including Plovdiv, Varna and Pleven, against the ...

Small armies of teachers, social workers and police officers are swarming across Bulgaria to carry out a Herculean task -- convince tens of thousands of Roma parents to send their children to school.

Several policemen and protesters have been injured during clashes at an anti-Roma rally in the southern town of Radnevo that was held after an alleged assault by Roma men on ethnic Bulgarians. Around ...

SOFIA, March 24 (Reuters) - Authorities in the Bulgarian city of Sliven have set up police checkpoints around the Roma neighbourhood, as the government considers tougher measures for a community it ...

This article is part of the Breaking out: Stories of Roma empowerment special report, presented by the Roma Foundation for Europe. On a hot June day, a group of Roma teenagers huddled over chemistry ...

While officials say they are merely trying to protect the Roma community from COVID-19, some of its members feel victimised by the restrictive measures put in place in their neighbourhoods. Since the ...

Ivelina Taushanova, Communications Officer with the World Bank office in Bulgaria, shares this story about a Roma woman who is making the best of her Roma Education Fund Grant. Dimitrinka works ...

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 ...

Roma student Printsessa Ivanova is cramming hard at her village in Bulgaria's poor northwest, preparing for college entrance exams. The teenager, whose name means "princess", wants to become a ...