Slovenian Ombudsman dr. Zdenka Cebasek - Travnik hosted in Ljubljana on Monday, 20. 9. 2010, her counterparts from countries from the region of the former Yugoslavia, bar Serbia. At Bosnia-Herzegovina's proposal, they discuss the issue of migrant workers in Slovenia, dr. Cebasek - Travnik said, adding that the erased were also on the agenda.

In recent months, Slovenia saw several cases of violations of migrant workers' rights where the employers owed workers money or forced them to work excessive overtime.

Since the majority of migrant workers come from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnian ombudsmen presented the issue, proposing possible ways for both involved countries to tackle it.

Dr. Zdenka Cebasek - Travnik said that the ombudsmen would try to establish the legal grounds for their participation in this process.

Slovenia is currently working to resolve the issue of the erased - around 26,000 citizens of former Yugoslavia who were deleted from Slovenia's permanent resident registry in 1992. Dr. Cebasek - Travnik said she was surprised to learn that all former Yugoslav countries were dealing with the issue of people with no citizenship.

The most liberal approach to the matter was taken by Kosovo, which has little restrictions for acquiring citizenship, whereas other countries have sought to employ "more or less successful solutions", dr. Cebasek - Travnik said.

Ombudsmen of other participating countries noted that few people file complaints regarding their status in Slovenia in their own countries. They believe that people are too poorly informed of their rights to do so.

The situation of the Roma was also discussed, with the participants concluding that in some countries Roma people have no personal identification documents, which prevents them from claiming any rights on the basis of permanent residence or citizenship.