{"id":5419,"date":"2020-02-05T11:24:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T08:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boldbg.net\/2020\/02\/05\/%d0%b4%d0%b8%d0%bc%d0%b8%d1%82%d1%80%d0%b8%d0%bd%d0%b0-%d0%bf%d0%b5%d1%82%d1%80%d0%be%d0%b2%d0%b0-%d1%88%d0%be%d0%ba%d0%b8%d1%80%d0%b0%d1%89%d0%be-%d0%b5-%d0%bd%d0%b5%d0%b2%d0%b5%d0%b6%d0%b5%d1%81\/"},"modified":"2020-10-09T09:56:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T06:56:08","slug":"dimitrina-petrova-the-ignorance-of-human-rights-and-the-inaction-of-the-state-is-shocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boldbg.net\/en\/2020\/02\/05\/dimitrina-petrova-the-ignorance-of-human-rights-and-the-inaction-of-the-state-is-shocking\/","title":{"rendered":"Dimitrina Petrova: The ignorance about human rights and the inaction of the state are shocking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n

Interview of Dimitrina Petrova of BOLD with Vidka Atanasova,\nDnevnik. Source \u2013 Diary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The National Child Strategy regulates the protection of children\nat risk, but for about a year there has been a mass psychosis among parents due\nto false claims that this strategy aims at the opposite, as well as absurd\nclaims that there exists organized trafficking of Bulgarian children to Norway,\nfor which non-governmental organizations that practically protect children from\ndomestic violence are to blame.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Dimitrina Petrova, initiator and representative of the\nBulgarian Community for Liberal Democracy (BOLD), a new initiative of the\nBulgarian Helsinki Committee, aims to increase public support for democracy and\nhuman rights and fundamental freedoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She will be one of the participants in tomorrow\u2019s discussion\n\u201cThe family in a democratic society: Can the rights of the child be in conflict\nwith the rights of their own family?\u201d The event is organized by BOLD as part of\na campaign on the protection of the child and the family. BOLD invites citizens,\nrepresentatives of civil society organizations, initiatives, movements and\ninterested media to attend the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do you explain this hysteria among people? Is there an\norganized campaign to instill these fears? Who organizes it, and who is interested\nin the lack of social services that protect the child?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 The opponents of the National Child Strategy have benefited\nfrom several parallel processes and circumstances that are mutually reinforcing\ndue to their simultaneity. First, their cause is part of the ongoing global\ncampaign of cultural conservatism, which in turn is one aspect of the global\noffensive against liberal democratic values, including human rights and gender\nequality, an offensive that began a decade ago. In many countries, like in\nBulgaria, this campaign is currently being waged by strong civic movements\nunder the banner of protecting \u201cfamily values\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, the topic of the child and the family itself is an\nextremely convenient entry point for spread and affirmation of traditionalist\nattitudes, because it is easily communicable in the form of emotional stories\nwhose messages are easier to understand than the slightly more abstract\nmessages of human rights activists. What more disturbing message than the\nthreat of losing your child? It arouses visceral response and people throw\nthemselves headlong into such a cause without much thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third, the global ideological processes on such a sensitive\ntopic fall on the fertile historical ground of a deep patriarchal mentality\ncharacteristic of the Balkans, which is only superficially affected by\ncommunist and later liberal transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, fourth, but most important \u2013 in the case of the\nprotests against the National Child Strategy, the main factor is their good\ncommunication strategy, competent organization and successful channeling of\ncivic energy. The question of who is behind all this has no simple answer. But\nI took the trouble to trace some of the direct borrowings of ideas and even\ntexts and came to certain sources, such as the global network of organizations\nfor the protection of the family and family values, in which some of the\nstrongest ideological actors are from Russia and the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is it related to the campaign against the Istanbul Convention,\nwhich tried to introduce measures against domestic violence against women?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Yes. Both campaigns, to which we must now add the campaign to\nrepeal the Social Services Act, which has not yet entered into force, are\nmanifestations of cultural conservatism and touch on typical themes of the\nmodern global culture wars. In Bulgaria, the spectrum of participants in these\nmovements is complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At one end are conscious adherents of anti-liberal ideologies\nsuch as the Russian Orthodox-Eurasian conservatism of the Izborsk Club (also\nknown as the Institute for Dynamic Conservatism, founded by Russian\nconservative politicians, scholars, publicists, and clergy) and some Western\nreligious-conservative movements. At the other end are ordinary people,\nespecially parents, who have been manipulated into believing that children\u2019s\nrights and women\u2019s rights run counter to family values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Should the state play a more definite role in reassuring the\npopulation, with an explanatory information campaign, for example?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Yes. In all cases of sharp attack on women\u2019s and children\u2019s\nrights and on democratic civil society organizations over the past decade, the\nGERB government and its partners have remained silent, but at the same time\ntaken regressive action to satisfy the demands of ultra-conservative movements.\nThis is what happened with the Istanbul Convention, the National Child Strategy,\nand the Law on Social Services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The state has an obligation to respect, protect and realize\nhuman rights, including the rights of the child. As the main duty bearer for\nthe realization of the rights of the child, the state must also ensure that\neducation on child rights and human rights is provided. As someone who has returned\nto Bulgaria after more than 20 years abroad, I am shocked by the incredibly profound\nmass ignorance of human rights and by the inaction of the state in this area. I\nhave worked in many countries around the world, but I have rarely encountered\nsuch a degree of ignorance of basic human rights principles. For example, the belief\nthat the child should not be a subject of rights. Appalling!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are the social services that currently monitor the rights of the\nchild in the family important? Are they doing their job? Is there a need for\nNGOs in the sector?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Of course, social services are important. They do their job as\nbest they can, sometimes not very well, but it is not so much these services\nthat are at fault; rather, to blame is the desperate lack of political\nattention to them. Social workers are almost at the bottom of the social\npyramid and the turnover among them is very high. Yes, there is a need for NGOs\nin the social services sector. Without them, we would return to the madness of\ncommunist central planning without any adjustments from civil society, based on\ninitiative, innovation, and flexibility in meeting needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People who want to oust NGOs from the social services sector do\nnot notice that they are both afraid of the state (because only state\nprotection bodies can remove children from their families, never NGOs), and\nwant all services to be in the hands of the state. Should we again begin to\nexplain the role of civil society as a guarantor against state abuses? What\nyear is it now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is there a need for legislative changes and in what direction?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Yes. They are in the Social Services Act. I hope that reason\nwins and the law comes into force. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source \u2013 https:\/\/www.dnevnik.bg\/intervju\/2020\/01\/30\/4022993_dimitrina_petrova_shokirashto_e_nevejestvoto_po<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interview of Dimitrina Petrova of BOLD with Vidka Atanasova, Dnevnik. 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