Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Eighty- eighth session
23 November-11 December 2015
Item 4 of the provisional agenda
Consideration of reports, comments and information submitted by States parties under article 9 of the Convention
List of themes in relation to the combined eighth to eleventh periodic reports of Slovenia (CERD/C/SVN/8-11)
Note by the Country Rapporteur
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The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination decided at its seventy-sixth session (A/65/18, para. 85) that the Country Rapporteur would send to the State party concerned a short list of themes with a view to guiding and focusing the dialogue between the State party’s delegation and the Committee during the consideration of the State party’s report. This document contains a list of such themes. This is not an exhaustive list; other issues may also be raised in the course of the dialogue. No written replies are required. |
1.Reliable and disaggregated statistics on the composition of the population
Update on disaggregated data on the effective realization of Convention rights for disadvantaged and marginalized individuals and groups, in particular statistical data that would serve to measure the implementation of progress in the exercise of the rights of Roma in the fields of education, housing, health and employment with full respect for the privacy and anonymity of the individuals concerned (CERD/C/SVN/CO/6-7, para. 7).
2.National legal framework, policies and programmes against racial discrimination (arts. 2, 4 and 5)
(a)Progress in the implementation of existing legislation, in particular the Criminal Code adopted in 2008, in order to combat acts of ethnically motivated discrimination and violence among the different ethnic groups, including hate speech and hate crimes (CERD/C/SVN/8-11, para. 109);
(b)Measures taken to prohibit public manifestations of hate speech and intolerance by politicians, including information on cases of alleged racially motivated offences and the results of any ensuing administrative or judicial proceedings (CERD/C/62/CO/9, para. 12);
(c)Update on the implementation and impact of strategies and policies to ensure protection of the rights of migrants and ensure their sustainable settlement;
(d)Update on the functioning of the Advocate of the Principle of Equality as an independent institution dealing with racial discrimination.
3.Situation of minorities, especially the Roma (arts. 2, 3, 4 and 5)
(a)Updated information on the situation of minority groups other than Italian and Hungarian (ethnic and national identity, political representation and cultural rights);
(b)Updated information on the evaluation on the progress made in the 2010-2015 National Programme of Measures for Roma and update on the 2015-2020 National Programme;
(c)Progress on the meaningful participation of the Roma community in the spatial planning, including in the settlements under the responsibilities of municipalities CERD/C/SVN/8-11, para. 62, and criteria for their inclusion in low-cost housing CERD/C/SVN/8-11, para. 58;
(d)Update on access to safe drinking water and sanitation, employment and education;
(e)Progress on the elimination of distinction between “indigenous” and “new” Roma (CERD/C/62/CO/9, para. 10) as well as applicability and amendments of the 2007 Roma Community Act.
4.Situation of non-citizens (arts. 2, 5, 6 and 7)
(a)Situation of persons referred to as “the erased”
Update on the legal means to restore retroactively the permanent residency status of all the citizens of the successor States that formed part of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia who were removed from the Slovenian registry of permanent residents in 1992, referred to as “the erased” persons, following the expiration of the law (ZUSDDD-B) on 24 July 2013 (CERD/C/SVN/8-11, para. 103); Applicability and updates of the act to grant reparation for individuals who were erased from the register of permanent residents (Act on Reparation for Persons Erased from the Register of Permanent Residents), following the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights in Kurić and Others v. Slovenia of 26 June 2012 and 12 March 2013 (CERD/C/SVN/8-11, para. 105).
(b)Situation of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers
Update on the amendments to the law on international protection
Rights of refugees and asylum seekers to adequate housing
Access to court and legal assistance.