Bulgaria: Project Background Documents

In February 2017, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) launched a two-year project to help improve skills of, and collaboration among, criminal justice professionals in each of four OSCE participating States – Bulgaria, Greece, Italy and Poland – and to improve their co-operation with civil society. The overall aim was to contribute to building a comprehensive criminal justice response to hate crime in each country. The outcomes and experiences of project activities in Bulgaria were presented and discussed at a workshop in Sofia on 12 June 2018. ODIHR organised the event together with the Public Prosecutors Office and the National Institute of Justice of Bulgaria. This report provides a summary of the discussion.