At the invitation extended by the Greek Ombudsman Andreas Pottakis, the Human Rights Ombudsman Peter Svetina is currently attending the session of the General Assembly of the Association of Mediterranean Ombudsmen (AOM) in Nafplio, Greece. The central topics of this year’s meeting, which... more

As the National Human Rights Institution in Slovenia (NHRI), which, among other things, carries out supervisory tasks, the Ombudsman produced a http://ennhri.org/rights-at-borders/#national-report-slovenia - -new-window "Opens internal link in current window". The report was drawn up in... more

Slovenian National preventive mechanism (NPM) has also signed a joint statement in which members of global torture prevention community are calling for protection of Afghanistan’s national preventive mechanism. The recent Taliban military offensive poses a grave threat to the continued... more

Peter Svetina, the Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia, and his colleagues today presented to Borut Pahor, the President of the Republic of Slovenia, the Annual Report of the Human Rights Ombudsman for 2020 and the Report of the Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of... more

“2020 had a profound impact on people’s lives. In such circumstances, the institution of the Human Rights Ombudsman received as many as a third more cases than in previous years. We processed 6,852 cases and detected violations of human rights or fundamental freedoms and other... more