Human Rights Ombudsman Peter Svetina and his colleagues paid a working visit to Maribor today. They talked with 21 people, who assessed that the institution of the Ombudsman could help them exercise their rights. The Ombudsman also met with the Mayor of the Maribor Urban Municipality,... more

The Human Rights Ombudsman Peter Svetina and the Deputy Ombudsman Ivan Šelih attended in Vienna on 7 June 2022, at the invitation of the Austrian national human rights institution, a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the Austrian National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) under the... more

A delegation of the Council of Europe Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) is currently on a visit to Slovenia. On Monday, 6 June 2022, they met with representatives of the Ombudsman. GRETA was established in accordance with the Council of Europe... more

Today, on 6 June 2022, at a working meeting, the Human Rights Ombudsman received representatives of non-governmental organisations responsible for the exercise of environmental and spatial rights. He regretted that the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning did not implement any... more

At the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression, which is marked every 4 June, the Ombudsman stressed that we need to have zero tolerance towards all forms of violence. “During the last two years. we have worryingly seen an increase in violence against children.... more