The BGRF is founded in June 1998 in Sofia. The team of the Foundation consists of lawyers, academics, experts in advocacy, education, monitoring violations of human rights, lobbying for legislative changes, preparing publications, networking.

The BGRF has branches in Plovdiv, Haskovo, Gorna Oryahovitza. Since 2001 the BGRF has a youth department.

BGRF's main goals are to:

1. Promote and facilitate the achievement of a gender balanced society in Bulgaria based on equal representation of women and men;
2. Disseminate information and raise the awareness about women’s rights and gender issues in Bulgaria;
3. Identify, protect, and lobby for specific needs and problems of young people;
4. Support and participate to working groups drafting new legislation in the field of equal opportunities of women and men and in the field of eradicating violence against women and discrimination.
5. Advocate for the achievement of compliance with the Universal standards in the field of human rights and the universally recognized values of democracy.

Teodora Tsanovska, Zhana Guenova, and Genoveva Tisheva will manage the Bulgaria Country Page. Teodora Tsanovska is a law graduate and the Coordinator of the Women's Human Rights Training Institute, which provides legal counseling to victims of violence in the Sofia Municipality Prevention Center. She is also the Coordinator of the Youth Programme of BGRF. Zhana Guenova is a journalist and volunteer for BGRF. She is committed to social justice issues; she is an assistant to the UNIFEM project on Coordinated Community Response to domestic violence and on the effective and sustainable implementation of the Law on Protection against Domestic Violence. Zhana is the assistant for networking and establishing a network of NGOs on VAW in the Balkans. Genoveva Tisheva is the Managing Director of BGRF and the Director of the "Legal Programme, Research, Education and Development." She is also the Director of the Women' s Human Rights Training Institute.