As requested by the National Emergency Management Agency, the Human Rights Education and Research Division of the National Human Rights Commission of Mongolia conducted a human rights training on "Labour rights of civil servants”, "Workplace harassment”, "Protection and rights of the child”, "Usage of the International Human Rights Treaty” and "Domestic violence” for the staff of the National Emergency Management Agency, Emergency Management Department and National Rescue Brigade on...
The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) is undertaking assessment country visits in 2018 to a number of Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) participating States to identify challenges and good practices in the protection of human rights defenders, thereby launching the first country-specific assessment cycle focused on the situation of human rights defenders. Mongolia is included in the States that ODIHR will visit as part of the first assessment...
The National Human Rights Commission of Mongolia has been jointly organizing the series of human rights public lectures with the Open Society Forum since 2013. For this month of public lecture, we invited Ms. Suvd Namsrai, Honoured State Actress and Director of State Drama Theatre, as a guest speaker to share her thoughts on delivering human rights education through art on 21 September at the Government Building 11. The event conveyed over 50 participants including human rights activities,...
The National Human Rights Commission of Mongolia held a consultative meeting with its partner international organizations. The meeting was held under the theme of "Sustainable Development Goals – Cooperation” involving 17 representatives of the international organizations such as UN Office of Resident Coordinator, World Bank, UN Population Fund, International Labor Organization, UNICEF, UN Food and Agriculture Organization, ADRA International, Good Neighbors INGO, World Health...
Chief Commissioner Byambadorj Jamsran participated in the 23rd Annual Meeting of Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions in Hong Kong held from 18-19 September 2018. In accordance with the amendment made into the Constitution of APF by the previous meeting of the APF, an election for the Governance Committee of the APF, which is newly established structure, took place on 19 September 2018. The Commission has been actively engaged in APF activities and has successfully hosted...
Altangerel.Ch, Director of Secretariat of the National Human Rights Commission of Mongolia, has participated in the "Third Asia-Pacific Regional Workshop on Justice for Children in East Asia and the Pacific” in Bangkok, Thailand from 4-7 April 2018....
The National Human Rights Commission of Mongolia has raised its concerns about the reproductive health and rights of girls and women and quality and accessibility of medical care and services through commissioning the civil society organizations to conduct study on "Reproductive health and rights of teenage girls and women” and assessment on "Reproductive health and rights of girls and women with disabilities and situation of quality and accessibility of medical services”. Ms....
Within the framework of UNDP funded "Towards a professional and citizen-centred civil service” project to be implemented from 2018-2021, the Commission’s working group headed by Commissioner Oyunchimeg Purev has organized a training- of -trainers on "Gender and Human Rights” in Khovd soum, Khovd province from 10-12 September 2018. The training-of-trainers involved around 80 human resource officers of public administration from four provinces, namely Bayankhongor, Zavkhan, Govi-Altai and...
The Mongolian National Human Rights Commission held a joint meeting on 19 June 2018 in relation to current discussion at the Parliament Session on proposed draft of renewal of the Labor Law and other relevant regulations. The participants of the discussion meeting "Renewal of the Labor Law, basic principles in private sector employment and rights enforcement” were J. Byambadorj, Chief Commissioner, Mongolian National Human Rights Commission, Commissioner, P. Oyunchimeg, Commissioner N....
The Mongolian National Human Rights Commission conducted training on "Media and Human Rights” in Chinggis, Batnorov and Norovlin soums, Khentii aimag during 25-28 May, 2018 in cooperation with the Sustainable Artisanal Mining project of the Swiss Development Agency. The training attempts to improve understanding of human rights issues for local journalists, build human rights attitude and prepare journalists specialized on artisanal mining and human rights. Participants represented the local...
