Within the program "Support to initiatives of civil society organizations for protection and support of victims of human trafficking in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic" of the Council of Europe, PULSE Foundation will implement a series of initiatives for prevention of human trafficking and providing access to services to support victims or at risk of trafficking, etc. The initiative started in early November 2020 and has a duration of 7 months.

PULSE Foundation has launched a series of initiatives to evaluate existing policies and institutional practices in the field of domestic violence and gender-based violence, with the ultimate goal of their more effective upgrade, optimization, as well as to create tools for regular future use. To date, there is no such monitoring review in Bulgaria, and there are no sufficiently reliable and valid instruments measuring both applied - policies and institutional practices.

Duration: December 1, 2016 - November 30, 2018

Project number: JUST/2015/RDAP/AG/CORP/9176

Project partners

Leading organization

• PULSE Foundation, Bulgaria

Партньори

• Evris Foundation, Iceland
• ADFP Foundation - Assistance, Development and Professional Training, Portugal
• National Network for Children, Bulgaria
• "Hope For Children" CRC Policy Center, Cyprus

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Domestic violence manifests itself in all levels of society and in all societies around the world. Accurate statistics on victims of domestic violence in Bulgaria are lacking. NOEMA statistics from 2001 show that every fourth Bulgarian woman is a victim of domestic violence. Data from seven district courts in the period 2012-2014 show that 91% of murders of women were committed by men, 7% - with the complicity of men and women, and only 2% - only by women. In 35% of cases, murders and attempted murders of women were committed by the victim's current or former intimate partner, in 31% by another known man, and in only 9% of murders by a stranger. Two-thirds of the killings took place at the victim's home. In 2018 alone, 33 women / according to the Ministry of Interior / were killed by their intimate partners. For the first three months of 2019, 10 women were killed.

The ELFO project aims to develop a process of capacity building and support for guardians, foster families and legal representatives of children deprived of parental care in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Bulgaria for a period of 24 months, from December 2016 until the end of November 2018.

The project is supported by the Program for Rights, Equality and Citizenship of the European Union.

The project partner countries are DCI - Defense for Children Italy (Italy); Defense for Children - Spain (Spain); CESIS (Portugal); ARSIS (Greece) and PULSE Foundation (Bulgaria). In addition, in each project country there is official support from the local government: Municipality of Genoa (Italy); Regional Child Care Services (Spain); National Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of the Child (Portugal); The Directorate for Social Welfare, Central Macedonia District (Greece) and the Regional Directorate for Social Assistance of Pernik (Bulgaria).

The main goal of the project is to improve the level and quality of protection of children, victims or potential victims of violence by empowering guardians, legal representatives and foster parents of children deprived of parental care within an integrated framework for child protection.