As claims Roma women are routinely placed in separate ‘gipsy sections’ in maternity wards surface, it seems discrimination against Bulgarian Roma literally starts at birth. “When you enter the ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria — Bulgarian prosecutors pressed preliminary charges Thursday against a Roma woman who may be the mother of a girl found living with an unrelated couple in Greece. Though DNA tests have ...

Bulgarian police said Friday that DNA tests have confirmed that a 35-year-old Roma woman is the mother of a mysterious girl in Greece known as Maria, NBC News reported. Sasha Ruseva spotted the blond, ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) - A Roma woman in remote town in central Bulgaria has undergone DNA testing as authorities investigate if she is the mother of a suspected abduction victim in neighboring Greece ...

Azime Ali Topchu, 48, a Bulgarian Roma woman, stands in her back yard in a village on the outskirts of Burgas, Bulgaria, Monday, Sept. 28, 2020. Human rights activists and experts say local officials ...

Each year, Atanas Zachariev leaves Budapest to visit family and friends in his native Bulgaria. Each year, the situation in that Balkan country for Roma like himself, he says, gets worse. So a ...

Deputy PM's proposal to 'integrate' Roma communities by curbing welfare and demolishing unauthorised settlements has alarmed human rights groups – which accuse nationalist parties of whipping up ...

PLOVDIV, Bulgaria (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - On a cold day in January, Ivanka Angelova was at home with her daughter and four grandchildren when the village mayor arrived and advised them to leave ...

KYUSTENDIL, Bulgaria -- To beat the heat, Arso Ganev recently took his family to a local pool in their hometown of Kyustendil on the western fringes of Bulgaria. Arriving late in the afternoon at a ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) - DNA tests have confirmed that a 35-year-old Bulgarian Roma woman is the mother of a mysterious girl in Greece known as Maria, authorities said Friday. Genetic profile of Sasha ...