2.1 CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS FIELD OF WORK RESOLVED AND FOUNDED INDEX 15/14 NO. OF RESOLVED NO. OF FOUNDED PERCENTAGE OF FOUNDED AMONG RESOLVED 2014 2015 198 190 96.0 185 19 10.3 2 6 300 5 1 20 1.2 Ethics of public discourse 89 87 97.8 86 0 0 1.3 Assembly and association 6 8 133.3 8 3 37.5 1.4 Security services 2 1 50 1 0 0 1.5 Voting rights 14 4 28.6 3 1 33.3 1.6 Protection of privacy and personal data 66 61 92.4 60 8 13.3 6 3 50 3 1 33.3 13 20 153.8 19 5 26.3 1. Constitutional rights 1.1 Freedom of conscience 1.7 Access to public information 1.8 Other 2.1 CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS CASES CONSIDERED 2.1.1 General observations The number of complaints about constitutional rights sent to the Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia (the Ombudsman) was approximately the same as in 2014. The number of complaints in the subsection “Ethics of public discourse”, where a major, 50 per cent, decrease was noted in 2014, did not decrease further in 2015. However, the largest, i.e. threefold increase in the number of cases considered was noted in the sub-section “Freedom of conscience”, while the greatest reduction in the number of complaints was in the sub-section “Voting right”, which can be ascribed to the fact that there were no elections in 2015. The largest share of cases, almost 50 per cent, among constitutional rights cases was in the sub-section “Ethics of public discourse”. An exceptionally low level of argumentation of cases is typical of this sub-section. This can be largely ascribed to the fact that the alleged human rights violators are media publishers which are legal entities without public authorisations, or individual natural persons who publish on Internet sites (e.g. forums, Facebook), and therefore, the Ombudsman cannot consider the alleged violations. Most complaints in this area refer to alleged excessive interference in complainants’ privacy (11 complaints). These are often connected with media reports on criminal proceedings. 2.1.2 Realisation of the Ombudsman’s recommendations Regarding the ethics of public discourse, the Ministry of Culture responded and entirely supported the Ombudsman’s recommendation. They added that within the scope of the amendments of the Media Act they plan to regulate discourse in the media by placing liability on the publishers of offensive material, i.e. to design 26 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN OF THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA FOR 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN OF THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA FOR 2015 27