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Monitoring the rights of persons with disabilities: Insights from Slovenia’s NPM
While everyone in detention is vulnerable to abuse and ill-treatment, persons with disabilities can face additional risks. To mark the International Day of People with Disability (3 December), we invited the en/about-us/organisational-units-and-hro-council/ombudsman-as-a-nmp/ _blank to... more
Equal opportunities |
Deaf and hard of hearing |
Deafblind |
People with disabilities |
Persons with mental health issues
Upon International Day of Persons with Disabilities the Ombudsman calls for action
Ahead of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities observed on 3 December, Human Rights Ombudsman Peter Svetina stresses that with the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Convention) Slovenia undertook to provide and promote the full... more
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The Slovenian Sign Language Day
This year marks 20 years since the adoption of the Slovenian Sign Language Act. On the occasion of Slovenian Sign Language Day, which is celebrated on 14 November each year, Ombudsman Peter Svetina congratulates all representatives of the deaf and hard of hearing community for all their... more
Ombudsman Svetina: "It is essential to put the rights of people with deafblindness into a legislative framework and to abandon the medical definition of deafblindness."
"Deafblind people are still not given enough attention in Slovenia, which is why today's event is a bright spot and, I sincerely hope, a cornerstone in the regulation of the status and rights of people with deafblindness," Ombudsman Peter Svetina told participants at a... more
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