On 8 of December 2006 the National Assembly of Bulgaria unanimously adopted a Declaration on the involvement of the Bulgarian Parliament to the Council of Europe campaign to combat violence against women, including domestic violence (2006 – 2008), appointed by national parliaments, which was officially launched on the 27 of November 2006 in Madrid. The draft declaration was submitted to the Parliament by Mrs. Darinka Stancheva – coordinator for Bulgaria and member of the Parliamentary Group of the National Movement Simeon the Second. The draft was elaborated mutually by representatives of almost all the parliamentary groups – Marusja Lubcheva from the Parliamentary Group of the Coalition for Bulgaria, Nadejda Mihailova from the Parliamentary Group of the United Democratic Forces and Anastasia Mozer – from theParliamentary Group of Bulgarian People's Union.

On the 7-th of December 2006 the draft was discussed in the permanent Parliamentary Commission on Human Rights and Religions. The members of the Commission were informed by Mrs. Stancheva that almost all national parliaments of CE member states adopted similar declarations that engage the legislative power in the fight against the violence against women.

The Declaration of the Bulgarian Parliament put into priority the efforts to combat the violence against women in the legislative and in the control powers of the Parliament. 

The Declaration was supported in the plenary by Mrs. Emilia Maslarova, Minister of Labour and Social Policy. She declared that the Ministry which is the responsible institution for building of the administrative capacity to combat domestic violence, fully supports the adoption of the Parliamentary Declaration on the campaign which aims to raise the awareness of the society of the real scale of the domestic violence problems.   

More information about the campaign could be found at its internet website through the link.