The Government of the Republic of Slovenia addressed a request for prolongation of this deadline for additional year to the Court, but the Court replied it is not competent for prolongation of deadlines from its judgements and that Slovenian Government should address its request to The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe. Therefore, the deadline remains 26 June 2013. Continue reading
Peace Institute wins PASOS Think-Tank Achievement Award 2012
The Peace Institute was awarded the PASOS Think-Tank Achievement Award 2012. “The project of the Peace Institute is for me a shining example of the way how any civil society organization should function within a society and for the benefit of the society,” said award juror Gabriela Svárovská, a member of the board of the European Partnership for Democracy and former director of the Human Rights & Transition Policy Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic. Continue reading
Italian attorneys of the erased people and the Peace Institute received PILnet’s 2012 European Pro Bono Award
The Peace Institute along with the Italian attorneys Andrea Saccucci and Anton Giulio Lana received PILnet’s 2012 European Pro Bono Award for exemplary partnership in the public interest. The award was bestowed in Madrid at the closing ceremony of the 6th European Pro Bono Forum hosted by PILnet – The Global Network for Public Interest Law, and was accepted by attorney Antion Giulio Lana and Neža Kogovšek Šalamon, the director of the Peace Institute. Continue reading
New stories of the erased people just published
We are still collecting and writing stories of the erased because we want people to remember them. All stories talk about the erasure and its consequences but every story is different, every story is personal. Continue reading
First compensations paid to the erased people
Today the Republic of Slovenia paid compensation of 20.000 EUR for non-pecuniary damages to the each of the six erased people who were applicants in the case Kurić and others v. Slovenia, decided by the European Court of Human Rights on 26 June 2012. These are the first ever paid compensations received by the victims of unlawful deprivation of legal status that took place in 1992. Continue reading
Judgment of the European Court available in Slovenian language
On 26 June 2012 the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights issued a judgment in the matter Kurić and others v. Slovenia, finding Slovenia responsible for violations of the rights of the erased people. The judgment is … Continue reading





