Slovenia and the Council of Europe – bringing human rights from the conference table to your kitchen table

The Council of Europe works for you. We want to give visibility to the role, standards and work of the Council of Europe in its member states, to show how Council of Europe membership has helped achieve particular results or changes. Our aim, through a variety of events and actions, is to highlight ways in which the Council of Europe’s action has helped improve the life of individuals and contributed to improving people’s enjoyment of fundamental rights.

Ambassador Berta Mrak, Veleposlanica, Stalna predstavnica Republike Slovenije pri Svetu Evrope

Whether it is the impact of the European Convention on Human Rights at national level, or the Council of Europe's work in many fields, such as working to abolish the death penalty or to ensure freedom of expression and freedom of the media, or to adress online and technology-facilitated violence against women through the Istanbul Convention and Budapest Convention on Cybercrime, the Council of Europe has achieved a lot since 1949. View achievements »

Events

28 January 2026

• The exhibition “European Capital of Culture 2025 – Nova Gorica-Gorizia as a European model of cross-border cooperation” opened at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg on the sidelines of the winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly. Prior to the ceremony, a roundtable discussion highlighted this unique cross-border initiative embodying shared European values and experience. The exhibition presents, through artistic expression and dialogue, experience of two cities and two countries united by cooperation and a shared cultural vision.

June 2023

• High level event with PACE representatives and an exhibition : 
  • Potrebujemo več multilateralizma: Svet Evrope je srce evropske in mednarodne arhitekture, Predsednica Republike Slovenije Nataša Pirc Musar
  • Obisk predsednice Republike Slovenije Nataše Pirc Musar v Strasbourgu (GOV.SI)
  • Delegacija Državnega zbora v PS Sveta Evrope na poletnem zasedanju in razstava o Ustavi v stripu ob 30. obletnici pristopa Republike Slovenije v Svet Evrope (Državni zbor/National Assembly).

May 2023

• Video to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Slovenia’s accession to the CoE (14 May 1993) :
  • Video posted to Twitter and Facebook 
  • See also MZEZ: Svet Evrope ostaja vest Evrope - 30 let članstva Slovenije v Svetu Evrope (RTV SLO)

6 April 2023

• Hybrid roundtable with a distinguished panel from the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana : 
  • Ministrica Fajon: "V Reykjavíku želimo potrditev vloge Sveta Evrope pri varovanju človekovih pravic" (Ministrstvo za zunanje in evropske zadeve); 
  • Okrogla miza ob 30-letnici članstva Slovenije v Svetu Evrope (Univerzi v Ljubljani, Fakulteta za družbene vede)