Today, we cannot imagine a modern democratic state without a constitution that guarantees and provides human rights and fundamental freedoms to all citizens, or without an institution that protects these rights and takes action in the event of their violations, which we all know as the ombudsman. By issuing reports on an annual basis, the ombudsman seeks to raise awareness among citizens and authorities of violations in certain areas, and to make recommendations and suggestions to prevent such violations in the future. He/she also tries to encourage people to become aware of their own human rights and fundamental freedoms, as it is clear that people are not aware of them and consequently do not realize that they have been violated; they are also not aware of what forms of legal protection they can use in case of infringements. According to the analysis of the annual reports, it is clear that violations occur, especially in the field of administrative procedures, where the basic principles of administrative procedure and the principles deriving from the European Code of Good Administrative Behavior are violated above all. In order to avoid such violations in the future, the ombudsman emphasizes the work of higher institutions such as the European Court of Human Rights and the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia in similar cases, and thus tries to highlight and draw attention to the seriousness of the violations, which should not be committed by the authorities in charge of the proper implementation of these procedures.
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