Making EU Home: Welcoming Refugees in Bulgaria Discussion on promising practices for fair and inclusive refugee protection system Date: 6 January 2016
00:00 Opening - Prof. Anna Krasteva and Varka Kalaydjieva
10:10 Keynote speach - Prof. Blagoy Vidin
29:13 First panel: Fairness: Access to border and fair asylum process - Francisco Rico-Martinez, Founder and Co-Director of FCJ Refugee Centre - Entering Canada: Border crossing - Access to international protection - Rights of asylum-claimants
1:07:23 - Points for reflection and discussion Brief comparison with current Bulgarian asylum system and practices - Valeria Ilareva, founder and head lawyer at the Foundation for Access to Rights - FAR
1:46:24 - Second panel: Welcoming refugees: equal opportunities for integration - Loly Rico, Founder and Co-Director of FCJ Refugee Centre - Access to services - No one can do it alone: Government, Municipalities and Settlement NGOs working together - Role of Settlement NGOs
2:23:00 - Points for reflection and discussion Brief comparison with current integration policies in Bulgaria - Mariana Stoyanova, Program manager, Bulgarian Red Cross
3:24:28 - Third panel: The invisibles: improving access to asylum and services for people victims of torture, LGBTQ, human trafficking victims, non-status individuals and other marginalized groups - Promising practices in Canada - Francisco Rico-Martinez, Founder and Co-Director of FCJ Refugee Centre
4:00:22 - Points for reflection and discussion Brief comparison with current policies in Bulgaria - Mimoza Dimitrova, Director of Assistance Centre for Torture Survivors - ACET
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