E/C.12/SVN/CO/1 page 3 15. The Committee notes with concern the employment insecurity facing individuals hired on short-term employment contracts, a phenomenon that is becoming increasingly widespread. 16. The Committee is concerned that nationals of the former Yugoslavia have been “erased” as their names were removed from the population registers in 1992. As a result of this, they have lost their Slovene nationality and their right to reside in the State party. The Committee observes that this situation entails violations of these persons’ economic and social rights, including the rights to work, social security, health care and education. Moreover, the Committee regrets the lack of information on the actual situation with regard to the enjoyment by those individuals of the rights set out in the Covenant. 17. The Committee notes with concern that trafficking in women and children is a serious problem in the State party, which is a country of origin, transit and destination for the trafficking of women and children. The Committee regrets the lack of specific legislation to combat this phenomenon, as well as the low number of enforcement measures. 18. The Committee is concerned that the State party provides no specific legal mechanisms to deal with domestic violence, particularly violence against women, and consequently victims of such violence may not be adequately protected by current legislation. 19. The Committee is concerned about the persistence of significant regional disparities in the State party that affect the equal enjoyment by all of economic, social and cultural rights such as employment, welfare benefits and social services. 20. The Committee notes that the State party has not ratified a number of conventions of the International Labour Organization (ILO), bearing on rights enshrined in the Covenant, including the Equality of Treatment (Social Security) Convention, 1962 (No. 118) and the Prevention of Major Industrial Accidents Convention, 1993 (No. 174). E. Suggestions and recommendations 21. The Committee would like to see in the next report of the State party reference to some of the cases referred to the Constitutional Court by the Ombudsman. 22. The Committee recommends that the State party should consider adopting a national action plan in the field of human rights, in accordance with paragraph 71 of the 1993 Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action. It requests the State party to report to it, in its next periodic report, on the status of initiatives relating to the protection of economic, social and cultural rights and to provide information with data to enable it to assess the progress made by the State party in this regard. Furthermore, the Committee strongly recommends that the State party should provide more support and resources to the Ombudsman’s office responsible for the implementation of human rights. 23. The Committee recommends that in its next report the State party should provide some of the case law of the Courts relating to the implementation of the Covenant.