2011 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - Slovenia
|Publisher||United States Department of State| |Author||Bureau
of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor| |Publication Date||24 May
2012| |Cite as||United States Department of State, 2011 Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - Slovenia, 24 May 2012,
available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/4fc75a623a.html
[accessed 23 May 2013]| Slovenia is a parliamentary democracy
and constitutional republic. Power is shared among a directly
elected president (head of state), a prime minister (head of
government), and a bicameral parliament composed of the National
Assembly (lower house) and the National Council (upper house).
The coalition government of Prime Minister Borut Pahor lost a
no-confidence vote on September 20; citizens elected a new
government on December 4 in free and fair multiparty elections.
Security forces reported to civilian authorities. The most
significant human rights problem was societal discrimination and
occasional extremist harassment an