@legalruling {472436,
	title = {Case of V.K. v. Bulgaria},
	journal = {C/49/D/20/2008; Communication No. 20/2008 },
	year = {2011},
	publisher = { Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)},
	abstract = {http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CEDAW/Pages/Jurisprudence.aspx
CEDAW/C/49/D/20/2008
The author of the complaint, VK, alleged that she had been a persistent victim of domestic abuse at the hands of her husband, and petitioned the Bulgarian courts to issue a protection order against him. VK was issued an interim order, but at the full hearing, the court refused to make a permanent order in accordance with its interpretation of national law on the basis that no domestic violence had taken place in the month prior to the initial hearing. The ruling was upheld on appeal. VK specifically alleged that the State had neglected its positive obligation under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women to protect her from domestic violence, and that it had not acted to ensure the necessary protection to avoid irreparable damage to her and her two children.
},
	url = {http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CEDAW/Pages/Jurisprudence.aspx},
	author = {CEDAW}
}
