Human Rights Ombudsman with the Ombudsman for the viewers and listeners’ rights on the events in 2022
Ombudsman Peter Svetina received the Ombudsman for the viewers and listeners’ rights (PGP) of Radiotelevizija Slovenija (RTVSLO), Marica Uršič Zupan. She presented her 2022 report, her first since she started work on 18 January 2022.
She said that last year she had received a record... more
Ombudsman watches young people’s debate about mental health at the 33rd Children’s Parliament
On 11 April 2023, Human Rights Ombudsman Peter Svetina and Deputy Ombudsman Dr Jože Ruparčič, who is in charge of children’s rights protection, participated at the 33rd Children’s Parliament at the National Assembly, where young members of parliament discussed the mental health of... more
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Human Rights Ombudsman visits four municipalities in the Gorenjska region
On 20 March 2023, Human Rights Ombudsman Peter Svetina visited four municipalities in the Gorenjska region where he met with their mayors. They talked about the challenges and most pressing issues they encounter in their work. The Ombudsman assured them that within his competences he will... more
Ombudsman Appoints Goran Forbici for the RTV Slovenija Council
Following the consideration of all the applications received from non-governmental organisations working in the field of human rights, Human Rights Ombudsman Peter Svetina decided to appoint Goran Forbici, the director of the umbrella network of the Slovenian non-governmental... more
Upon International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Ombudsman Svetina also on how dangerous hatred, intolerance, incitement, and expressing one’s own superiority are
After the then German president Roman Herzog proclaimed 27 January Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Nazism upon the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in January 1995, this day was also proclaimed International Holocaust Remembrance Day in... more