Petar Kichashki

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Petar Kichashki is a Bulgarian lawyer, human rights lawyer and public figure, executive director of the Institute for Modern Policy, among the founders of the civil movement He has been a member of the Commission for Protection against Discrimination since 2017. At the beginning of 2020, he co-founded and became Chairman of the organization .

Biography
Petar Kichashki was born in Vidin on 12.07.1989. I graduated from the Natural-Mathematics High School of Ekzarh Antim I. Between 2012 and 2013 he was regional coordinator for Southern Europe, responsible for Portugal, Spain, Italy, Malta, San Marino, Cyprus, Greece, Turkey, Albania, Bulgaria and Armenia of the European Independent Life Network. Since 2012 he has been a member of the Advisory Council and since 2014 he has been the Executive Director of the Institute for Modern Policy. On 04.08.2017, by decree President Rumen Radev appointed him as a member of the Commission for Protection against Discrimination on a proposal from a number of NGOs such as the Union of Military Disabilities and Military Victims, the Bulgarian Jury Association, the Four-Paw-Eye Foundation, the Institute for Modern Policy, the European Association for Human Rights, the Association for Human Rights, the Association of D-Sacrifice, Pre-Support and metabolic syndrome. Married.

Action in the Commission for Protection against Discrimination
At the initiative of Petar Kichashki, the Commission for Protection against Discrimination launched a specialized campaign for an accessible architectural environment for people with disabilities under the title of "Accessive Bulgaria." Campaign The CDC is beginning to investigate the accessible public environment and impose fines for inaccessibility for disabled people and, on the other hand, it relies on the media to promote the need to create the relevant accessible environment for disabled people. Among the media partners of the initiative are TV "Bulgaria On Air" , "Focus" , OFFNews.bg, "Strovitel" newspaper and others. In September 2018, at a special press conference in the Commission for Protection against Discrimination, Petar Kichashki presented a report which shows that the campaign "Accessive Bulgaria" is the most effective of this kind in the Commission's history, with hundreds of productions for an inaccessible architectural environment in a matter of months. In the framework of the campaign "Accessive Bulgaria" he appeared at the prestigious music awards "359hip Awards" together with the musicians from the group Scandau, who receive the "Group of the Year" award in wheelchairs as a sign of empathy to people with disabilities.

At the end of 2017, on a case file to which Kichashki is rapporteur, the CDC issued a decision that the Sofia Municipal Council discriminated against people with disabilities. In 2018, on a case file to which he is rapporteur, the CDC issued a decision to protect adoptive parents of children by declaring them to be discriminatory texts of the Labour Code and the Social Insurance Code