"Scientific conference on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the 50th anniversary of their entry into force"

The Institute for the State and the Law at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is organising a one-day international scientific forum, "Scientific Conference on the Occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Adoption of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the 50th Anniversary of Their Entry into Force", which will be held on 21 October 2026 (Wednesday) in the hall of the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 9 Iskar Street, Sofia.

The conference is dedicated to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which are the first universal legally binding international treaties in the field of human rights. The achievements and challenges in the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms in the States parties to the Covenants will be presented.

The working languages of the conference are Bulgarian and English.

The conference will be held without a participation fee in a hybrid format, with the possibility of both in-person attendance and online access.

All papers admitted to the scientific conference will be published in a special open-access electronic publication (online on the ISL website) following approval by an editorial board.

Registration:

The duly completed application for participation (in accordance with the attached template) must be sent by 12 October 2026 to the official e-mail address of the conference conference.idp@gmail.com. The application must be accompanied by an abstract of the paper in Bulgarian and in English. The submitted applications are subject to an assessment by the Organising Committee of the relevance of the topic, and explicit confirmation is sent for approved applications. The final programme of the conference will be sent to the participants on 16 October 2026.