Gender Education, Research and Technologies Foundation (GERT) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, acting in public interest and in line with the international law to which Bulgaria is party.
The EU Kids Online project examines research carried out in Member States into how people, especially children and young people, use new media. In this three-year collaboration, researchers will collaborate to identify, compare and evaluate the available evidence. (...)
The project is focusing on boys and and aims at planning of comprehensive education activities on the basis of a thorough study of the causes of violence, the groups of children they are affecting and specifically on changing boy’s behavior and attitude towards violence and abuse (...)
The judicial system and the Court are among the institutions, which are perceived and approached with some reticence and fear, and in the same time they are largely criticized in the public space. (...)
A large number of children in Bulgaria are placed in state residential homes.Children are very sensitive to people coming from outside and they trust mainly their close friends, roommates and children with similar experience and age. Therefore prevention programs run by peers are mostly efficient. (...)
This projet is part of the efforts to recognize the domestic violence against women as a public health issue. It implies the creation of specific protocols for care under the auspices of relevant public authorities (...)
This abstract illustrates how ICTs have played a key role in women’s rights in Bulgaria. The following publication is a case study from the AWID Development Journal, which will get out in the beginning of 2006 and will contain impressions and debates held at the Forum. (...)
We, the women of Europe state for building an antipatriarchal, secular, anti-militar and anti-racist Europe of rights and equality between women and men. (...)
The International Day for Safer Internet will be celebrated for the fourth time on February 6, 2007. For the first time Bulgaria was invited to take part in this event in 2005. In 2006 thirty seven countries throughout the world took part in the celebration. (...)
From 2 to 8 January 2006 the holiday complex "Sveta gora" next to Veliko Tarnovo hosted 25 children from different social institutions in Bulgaria, their educators and their trainers for a peer-to-peer education. (...)
Between 4 and 6 November 2005, Gender Education, Research and Technologies foundation(GERT) gathered ten women from non-governmental organizations for a training on basic economic literacy. It was held at the office of the Women’s Alliance for Development (WAD) and the trainers were Anita Seibert from the Karat Coalition, Poland and Jivka Marinova from GERT, Bulgaria. (...)