Initiatives and broader issues

Social benefits, grants and scholarships

12/28/2022

Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities (MDDSZ) Accepted the Ombudsman’s Position on the Limitation as an Essential Criterion for Determining the Minimum Income Security of Persons with Disabilities

Summary:

The Ombudsman was interested in why persons with the status of a person with disabilities according to the Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment of...

Education, sports, culture - Education

12/21/2022

Optimisation of Ad futura Scholarship Awarding Procedures

Summary:

In 2021, the Ombudsman contacted the Public Scholarship, Development, Disability and Child Support Fund of the Republic of Slovenia (the Fund) in the...

Restriction on personal freedom

12/21/2022

Difficult Access to Outdoors for a Detainee with Movement Impairments

Summary:

The Constitution guarantees everyone respect for human personality and dignity, even during deprivation of liberty and execution of penalties (Article...

Pension insurance

12/19/2022

Deficient Traceability of Administrative Procedures at the Institute for Pension and Disability Insurance of Slovenia

Summary:

In July of this year, a complainant turned to the Human Rights Ombudsman (the Ombudsman) because they had not yet received a decision on their request...

Health care

12/19/2022

Problems of Persons with Prader-Willi Syndrome in Participating in Medically Supervised Weight Loss Programmes

Summary:

The Ombudsman was informed by the complainants and representatives of persons with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) about the problems of these persons...

Foreigners

12/13/2022

Government acknowledges the need to recognise the social rights of non-residents

Summary:

In the opinion of the Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia, the sentence of the second paragraph of Article 51 of the Aliens Act...

Education, sports, culture - Education

11/22/2022

Zois scholarship rejected due to late entry of an article in COBISS

Summary:

Štipendist, ki kot izjemni dosežek za priznanje pravice do Zoisove štipendije uveljavlja objavo znanstvenoraziskovalne naloge ali znanstvenega...

Health care

11/22/2022

Problems with accessing doctors due to electronic appointments

Summary:

Pobudnica se je pritoževala, da njena mati, stara 77 let, ne zmore uporabljati informacijskega sistema IRIS, ki naj bi se uvajal v Zdravstvenem domu...