martial law was declared in response to a coup d'état in Bulgaria and the legislature passed a law in favor of capital punishment, she publicly spoke against the policy and wrote articles urging women to oppose the legislation, becoming one of the first to challenge the law. She reiterated her views at the nineteenth Convention of the Bulgarian Women's Union, imploring mothers, who knew the pain of giving birth and raising children, to stand against murder of human life, war, and the death penalty. Later career (1925–1945) In 1925, after 20 years as the chair of Самосъзнание, Pateva resigned over the ideological stance that members and the parent Bulgarian Women's Union had taken to support the dictatorial fascist regime of Aleksandar Tsankov and his white terror policies against intellectuals and political opponents. The following year, she organized the Женско миротворно общество в България (Women's Peace Society in Bulgaria), which she chaired until 1944. The organization actively opposed exile and repression by authorities. During the next decades, she worked at writing articles for the Вестник на жената (Women's Journal) and attending women's and peace conferences. She attended the Tenth Congress of the IWSA held in Paris in May 1926 and in July was in Dublin to attend the WILPF Congress. In 1927 Pateva spoke at the International League for Women for Peace and Liberty meeting in Gland, Switzerland and attended the International Federation of University Women Conference in Geneva in 1929; the Belgrade Peace Conference in May 1931; the War Resisters' International conference in Lyon in August 1931; the Universal Peace Congress hosted in Paris in 1937; and both in 1939 and 1940, she attended events in Rotterdam. Throughout her career, Pateva spoke at more than 100 public lectures and published approximately 500 articles and books on the topics of women's rights, pacifism, and vegetarianism, to which she adhered. In 1931, she was awarded an honorary membership in the French branch of the (International Union of Revolutionary Writers). Her home was a gathering place for prominent Bulgarian public figures and intellectuals, including , Adriana Budevska, , , Aleksandar Stamboliyski, , and Asen Zlatarov. In 1944, a second coup d'état brought in a communist regime, which implemented state socialism, giving women the vote, yet simultaneously abolishing women's and other grassroots organizations. In 1945, Pateva approached the Minister of National Education and Culture asking for permission to form the Свободно народно прогресивно културно