A new initiative in Bulgaria aims to reinvigorate support for democratic values and human rights by directly engaging citizens in a bottom-up process of deliberative democracy…
An open letter of justice and an open debate
One hundred and fifty university professors, writers and activists signed an open letter to Harpers Magazine to present their concern that “a new set of moral attitudes and political affiliations” […]
Isaiah Berlin, Two Concepts of Liberty
Isaiah Berlin, Two Concepts of Liberty In this classic 1958 study, Berlin advocates more precise and nuanced political terminology, in which the superficially understood concept of freedom […]
The Protests of Summer 2020 and What Comes Afterwards
The Bulgarian Community for Liberal Democracy (BOLD) is guided by the shared vision of its members for a society with democratic governance and a pluralistic political system in which
What does “the age-old malice of the slave”* mean today?
In the discussion club Marginalia the social psychologist Rumen Petrov talks with the human rights activist Dimitrina Petrova and Antoniy Todorov
Long live hypocrisy!
The concept of racism is broad and polysemous (with many meanings). There are many attempts to define it in the social sciences, philosophy and psychology. It encompasses beliefs, views, attitudes, even whole ideologies
13th – An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the history of racial inequality.
The film explores the intersections of race, justice and mass imprisonment in the United States.
A call to defend democracy!
The Bulgarian Community for Liberal Democracy (BOLD) is among the supporters of the open letter for protection of democracy, initiated by the Stockholm-based International IDEA and the National Endowment for Democracy
The BHC report on the state of human rights in 2019 has been published
Some of the highlights of the report are: Severe political pressure on journalists and the media; Discrediting and hindering the activity of the civil sector; Defamation of the court, legislative changes that call into question the logic of the law and the scandalous election of a new chief prosecutor.
On Human Rights with Prof. Dr. Dimitrina Petrova
We continue with the topic of human rights together with a specialist to whom we are infinitely grateful that he accepted our invitation to participate. Dr. Dimitrina Petrova has dedicated her life to defending human rights, developing large-scale projects in over 40 countries on various human rights issues
