Protection of human rights for a better future!

Here at PIC – Legal Center for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment, we believe that a better quality of life requires effective protection of fundamental human rights. Therefore,  we strive to help the most vulnerable including people with disabilities and mental health conditions, the unemployed, children, victims of domestic violence and human trafficking, socially vulnerable and the elderly. In order to ensure that as many people as possible have access to initial legal advice, we provide it for residents of two municipalities (Medvode and Trebnje) as well as for tenants in Ljubljana.

We aim to strengthen social justice whilst ensuring respect for dignity and equality of all individuals. To this end, we provide legal help, inform, advocate, educate, draft legal opinions and analyze, as well as participate in the processes of drafting and amending regulations, policies, practices. We bring the voice of the most vulnerable to institutions that impact their lives in order to improve social justice. To achieve lasting change, we use legal remedies that importantly shape jurisprudence on human rights protection.

We collaborate on a daily basis with chief national organizations that protect people with disabilities and other non-governmental organisations. We also work with partner organisations from abroad, such as Validity Foudation.

PIC also focuses on children and the protection of their rights. We are members of the Government Council for Children and Families, members of the inter-ministerial working group for the preparation of a systemic solution for the accommodation and care of unaccompanied children, members of the European Network for Children – EUROCHILD and members of the ZIPOM Centre.

We provide expert legal tutoring on violence against women and domestic violence for the Council of Europe (HELP Programme). We successfully advocated for the ratification of The Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention) and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which opens new legal pathways for the protection of their rights.

PIC’s director is an alternate member of the Management Board of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) and of the International Service for Human Rights, an international organisation that protects human rights defenders.