It’s Hard Being an Old Roma in Bulgaria
It’s Hard Being an Old Roma in Bulgaria

Summary/Abstract: The Roma minority in Bulgaria is disproportionately dependant on the social care system to maintain a minimal living standard. Access to health care and social services for members of this group is restricted by discriminatory attitudes and treatment and by legislative requirements. Social rights are fundamental: proclaimed as such within the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the European Social Charter. They place a positive obligation on governments to ensure that people can live and work under conditions suited to a basic level of human dignity. Exclusion from several social rights, such as social assistance and health care, negatively impacts older Romani individuals.

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