Slovenia: Amnesty International’s Briefing to the United Nations Human Rights Council 9th Session September 2008

Slovenia: Amnesty International’s Briefing to the United Nations Human Rights Council 9th Session September 2008

Amnesty International is concerned at an ongoing violation of human rights of the residents of the former Yugoslav republics who had been living in Slovenia and whose permanent residency status was revoked in 1992. In this document the organization points out to the violations of the principle of non-discrimination; right to work and social security; right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health and the right to education of the erased which occurred as a result of the revocation of their permanent residency status.