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Slovenia

Regional group:

Eastern European Group (EEG)

Council member:

2006-2007

2007-2008

2008-2009

2009-2010

2010-2011

2011-2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

Council Bureau membership:	President (2018) Vice-president (2009, 2010)
Coordinator of regional group:	1 (2014)
Voluntary financial contribution to OHCHR (2023) :

Other HRC positions:	Member of Consultative Group (2020) Member of Working Group on Situations (2016)
OHCHR presence:	– No field presence
NHRI accreditation status:	A

National Mechanisms for Implementation, Reporting, and Follow-up (NMIRF): Unknown

Engagement with the HRC

Principal sponsorship of HRC resolutions

Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on minority issues; World Programme for Human Rights Education; High-level panel discussion to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action; Human rights and the environment; Human rights education and training; Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure; Rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities; The human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment.

Voting record

Since it first became a member of the Council in 2007, Slovenia has voted in favour or has joined consensus on all resolutions tabled under item 4 (situations that require the Council’s attention). For item 7 resolutions (human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories), Slovenia has usually either abstained or voted in favour. It voted against the 2008 OIC resolution on ‘follow-up to resolution s-3/1 on Israeli military incursions in the OPT and the shelling of Beit Hanoun.’ For thematic resolutions dealing with civil and political rights, Slovenia has generally joined consensus. Where there has been a vote, it has voted in favour of resolutions on: torture; religious discrimination; and the elimination of intolerance. It has voted against: OIC resolutions on defamation of religions; Cuban resolutions on the right to peace; and African Group texts on complementary standards to the CERD. For thematic resolutions dealing with economic, social and cultural rights, Slovenia has joined consensus on a majority of texts. Resolutions that it has voted against include: Cuban resolutions on the effects of foreign debt, NAM resolutions on unilateral coercive measures, and Cuban resolutions on international solidarity. It abstained in the vote on the 2009 resolution on the right to development.

HRC participation

During HRC general discussions, panel debates and interactive dialogues with the Special Procedures, during the past three years, either as an HRC member or not, the State has joined:

Regional
group statements

Average of statements for all countries: 78

Subregional
group statements

Average of statements for all countries: 50

325

Political group
statements

Average of statements for all countries: 109

Cross-regional
group statements

Average of statements for all countries: 96

Other joint
statements

Average of statements for all countries: 5

HRC member empty chair?

Overall, as a HRC member, has participated in more than 10% of panel discussions, general debates and interactive dialogues.

Cooperation with international human rights system

Special Procedures

Standing invitation

Communications responded to / received

Visits requests status

Completed
Invitation sent by the State not (yet) accepted by the SP
Accepted / date set
Visit request by the SP and not (yet) accepted by the State
Postponed / cancelled

Longest visit request not (yet) accepted by the State >
SR on environment, 2020

Treaty Bodies

Ratified

Reporting Status

Ratification status
Party Not Party
Individual complaint procedure accepted.
Reporting status

Submitted on time
Submitted late
Not applicable

On schedule
Overdue (outstanding)

CAT

ICCPR

CED

CEDAW

CERD

ICESCR

CRC

CRPD

Most overdue report

ICESRC
4 Years

OP-CAT

Ratified

NPM established

Universal Periodic Review

Reported

(2010, 2014, 2019)

Mid-term report

1st and 2nd cycles

Level of delegation

Minister

Participation in other reviews
1^st cycle: 171 / 192

2^nd cycle: 192 / 192

Cooperation with the UN, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights

Cited in the Secretary General’s reports on 'alleged reprisals for cooperation with the United Nations, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights' (2010-2023)?

Fulfilment of past voluntary pledges & commitments

Specific voluntary pledges: 14

Slovenia presented voluntary pledges and commitments in support of its candidature for membership for the period 2016-2018 in February 2015. As well as reflecting on the fulfilment of Slovenia’s previous pledges and commitments, the document outlines a number of new commitments.

Key pledges include: Continue efforts to build an effective Council, including by cooperating with all member states; Continue to fulfil its obligations under the international human rights conventions, including by submitting periodic reports in a timely manner; Continue to pursue priority issues including women’s rights, children’s rights, minority rights, the rights of persons with disabilities, and the rights of older persons; Work towards including a human rights perspective in the post-2015 development agenda; Continue Slovenia’s leadership on human rights and the environment; Continue to implement, at a domestic level, the UN Guiding Principles on human rights and business; and implement its national action plan on Security Council resolutions 1325 and 1820 on women, peace and security

An analysis of steps taken by Slovenia in fulfillment of its international pledges show that it has submitted most of its periodic reports, but is yet to present its report under the CAT. Slovenia has supported initiatives on women’s rights, children’s rights, minority rights, the rights of persons with disabilities, and the rights of older persons.

Slovenia

Eastern European Group (EEG)

Engagement with the HRC

Principal sponsorship of HRC resolutions

Voting record

HRC participation

HRC member empty chair?

Cooperation with international human rights system

Special Procedures

Standing invitation

Communications responded to / received

Visits requests status

Treaty Bodies

Ratified

Reporting Status

Universal Periodic Review

Participation in other reviews 1st cycle: 171 / 192

2nd cycle: 192 / 192

Cooperation with the UN, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights

Fulfilment of past voluntary pledges & commitments

Specific voluntary pledges: 14

Participation in other reviews
1^st cycle: 171 / 192

2^nd cycle: 192 / 192