1 INTRODUCTION
11
2.5.3
Findings from complaints considered
82
2 WORK CONTENT AND REVIEW OF CASES DISCUSSED
25
2.5.4
Police Tasks and Powers Act
85
2.5.5
Changes of forms of deprivation of liberty and detention
85
2.1
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
27
2.5.6
Resolving complaints about the work of police officers
85
2.1.1
General observations
27
2.5.7
Private security and traffic warden services
87
2.1.2
Realisation of the Ombudsman’s recommendations
27
2.1.3
Freedom of conscience
29
2.1.4
Ethics of public discourse
29
2.1.5
Assembly and association
31
2.1.6 Voting rights
32
2.1.7
33
Protection of privacy and personal data
2.2 DISCRIMINATION
2.2.1
35
General observations
35
2.2.2 Realisation of the Ombudsman’s recommendations
36
2.2.3 Mechanisms to protect against discrimination and the organisation of the state
37
2.2.4 National and ethnic minorities
38
2.2.5 Special rights of national communities
38
2.2.6. Equal opportunities relating to sexual orientation
40
2.2.7 Equal opportunities relating to physical or mental disability (invalidity)
40
2.3 RESTRICTION OF PERSONAL LIBERTY
43
2.6 ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS
89
2.6.1
Realisation of the Ombudsman’s recommendations
89
2.6.2
Denationalisation
90
2.6.3
Taxes
90
2.6.4
Residence registration
91
2.6.5
Municipal roads on private land
91
2.6.6 Inspection procedures
92
2.6.7
92
Legal property matters
2.6.8 Aliens and citizenship
2.6.9 The Ombudsman’s response to the so-called migrant crisis
2.7 ENVIRONMENT AND SPATIAL PLANNING
92
103
105
2.7.1
General observations
105
2.7.2
Realisation of the Ombudsman’s recommendations
106
2.7.3
Odours
107
2.7.4
Openness, transparency and public access
107
2.7.5
Water-related issues and land with water use
108
2.7.6
Noise
109
2.7.7
Inspection procedures
110
2.8
PUBLIC UTILITY SERVICES
111
2.8.1
General observations
2.3.1
General observations
43
2.3.2
Realisation of the Ombudsman’s recommendations
44
2.3.3
Detainees
46
2.3.4
Prisoners
47
2.3.5
Forensic Psychiatry Unit (Unit)
51
2.3.6
Persons with restricted movement at psychiatric hospitals and social care institutions
54
2.3.7
Minors in residential treatment institutions and special education institutions
56
2.9
HOUSING MATTERS
2.3.8
Aliens and applicants for international protection
58
2.9.1
General observations
113
2.9.2
Realisation of the Ombudsman’s recommendations
114
111
113
2.4 JUSTICE
61
2.4.1
General findings
61
2.4.2
Realisation of the Ombudsman’s recommendations
62
2.4.3
Judicial proceedings
63
2.10 EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS
2.4.4
Minor offence proceedings
72
2.10.1 General observations
117
2.4.5
Prosecution service
74
2.10.2 Realisation of the Ombudsman’s recommendations
117
2.4.6
Attorneys and notaries
76
2.10.3 Round table: Let us open the doors to young people – enforcing labour rights
118
2.5
POLICE PROCEEDINGS
81
2.10.4 Problem of issuing A1 forms for workers posted abroad
119
2.5.1
General observations
81
2.10.5 Inspection procedures
120
2.5.2
Realisation of the Ombudsman’s recommendations
81
2.10.6 Workers in the public sector
120
2.10.7 Violations of employees’ rights in Slovenian Armed Forces
121
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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN OF THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA FOR 2015
2.9.3 Homelessness
114
2.9.4
115
Subsidising rents
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN OF THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA FOR 2015
117
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