Today, 5 June 2024, Ombudsman Peter Svetina submitted the 29th regular Annual Report of the Ombudsman and the 16th report of the National Preventive Mechanism for 2023 to the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia. Today, he handed the reports to the President of the Republic of... more

Human Rights Ombudsman Peter Svetina was in Zagorje ob Savi municipality on business today. He met for a personal interview with 11 complainants who estimated that their rights had been violated and that he and his colleagues could help them in asserting them. The Ombudsman also discussed... more

The Human Rights Ombudsman (Ombudsman) welcomes the decision of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia, which, in the constitutionality assessment procedure initiated at the Ombudsman's request, decided to repeal Article 18a of the Financial Administration Act (ZFU). The... more

Slovenia is currently ranked among the countries with the highest level of institutionalisation in Europe in terms of the number of people who live and perform most of their activities in 24-hour organised care or institutions. We are still far from realising the process of... more

The Ombudsman welcomes the adoption of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDD Directive). After several years of negotiations at the level of the European Union, last week, on 24 May 2024, the Council of the European Union finally approved the directive, which had... more