EU hopeful Bulgaria under fire for abuse at mental health institutions
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These establishments are dumping grounds where people are robbed of the right to any activity and wait only to die, said Krassimir Kanev, the president of the Helsinki Committee, a non-governmental organization ...
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Bulgarian parliament speaker Ognian Guerdjikov called on European Union legislatures to help save five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya in a scandal over AIDS-tainted blood.
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The new European Commission president, Jose Manuel Barroso, is under mounting pressure to strip Italy&#39;s designated justice commissioner, of his role in anti-discrimination policy after he made another gaffe at the weekend.
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The head of a leading mental health charity accuses the UK's medicines watchdog of not doing its job properly.
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A Russian opposition activist was committed to a psychiatric hospital before government protests, supporters said Friday Â the latest in a series of incidents suggesting a punitive Soviet-era practice is being revived.
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Muslims in Europe face discrimination in education, employment and housing and are often victims of verbal abuse and physical attacks, a monitoring group has reported.
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Politics: 3 September 2004, Friday. The fate of the five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya will be one of the topics discussed by foreign ministers from the EU member and candidate countries.
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The government's bid to update the mental health laws are criticised as "rooted in stereotype" by peers.
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Bulgaria pressed Wednesday for the repatriation of five of its nurses and a Palestinian doctor jailed in Libya after their death sentences were commuted to life in prison.
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The European Union stepped up pressure Tuesday on Ukraine to review the outcome of its disputed presidential election, which has triggered widespread criticism from across the continent.
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The European Commission recommended Tuesday that Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union next year &#151; but under some of the harshest terms ever faced by new members.
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Politics: 8 October 2004, Friday. Bulgaria marked Friday the World Mental Health Day with a Sofia event joined by the Swedish ambassador.
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The European Union&#39;s normally yawn-inducing institutions raised eyebrows on Wednesday when a spat over comments about homosexuality made by an Italian bureaucrat led to the
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Politics: 19 January 2005, Wednesday. The European Court of Human Rights found Bulgaria guilty of ill-treating a prisoner, it was officially announced on Wednesday.
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Terms used by NHS staff such as "bed-blockers" are demeaning to those they treat, the patients' tsar says.
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'KGB tactics' threaten EU partnership agreement as Miliband wades into crisis over staff intimidation
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Five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya for allegedly infecting children with HIV plan to seek compensation from Tripoli for illegal arrest and torture, Bulgaria's justice minister said Monday.