Field team headed by Chief Commissioner Byambadorj Jamsran worked in Umnugovi province from 5 to 12 September 2016 by gathering first-stage information for human rights assessment in mining projects in the province....
Within the scope of National Human Rights Commissin of Mongolia, Confederation of Mongolian Trade Unions, Specialised Inspection Agency, and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung a regional training on ‘Right to Labour’ were conducted in Ulaangom, Uvs province on 22 and 23 August, 2016....
Chief Commissioner Byambadorj Jamsran, representing the NHRCM and as Chairperson of Asia Pacific Forum of national human rights institutions, participated in the 6th World Congress against Death Penalty, which was held from 21 to 23 June 2016 in Oslo, Norway. The Congress, which is held every third year involving delegates of countries that abolished or are to abolish death penalty, international organisations, NGOs and academics, were organized by France, Australia, and Norway and...
Chief Commissioner Byambadorj Jamsran, as a member of the GANHRI Bureau and the Chairperson of the Asia Pacific Forum of national human rights institutions, participated in the Conference on the role of the human rights institutions in the modern society, which was held in Astana, Kazakhstan on 28 and 29 June 2016....
The 9th session of the Conference of the State Parties to the Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities took place in New York from 14 to 16 June 2016. During the conference, the representatives of 164 state parties to the Convention and other participants discussed giving priority to ensuring the rights of persons with disabilities in the process of implementing the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, eliminating poverty among them, protecting persons with mental...
Torture Prevention Ambassadors (TPA) selected from Asia Pacific national human rights institutions met in Geneva, Switzerland from 20 to 22 June 2016 and summed up the activities they undertook between 2014 and 2016. From Mongolia NHRI, Commissioner Oyunhcimeg Purev and Agar-Erdene Gankhuyag, Head of Policy analysis and human rights education division were selected as TPAs in Mongolia. They participated in this event and the UN Human Rights Council...
NHRCM field team headed by Commissioner Oyunchimeg worked in Bayankhongor, Govi-Altai, Zavkhan, and Arkhangai provinces from 8- 19 May 2016. The NHRCM team examined the implementation of rights of employees and servicemen in Army Units 339 and 325 to labour, had meetings with the authorities of local governments and government organizations, and gathered information on how labour rights are implemented in these provinces....
NHRCM is conducting inquiries on the labour related rights of servicemen of the army units of Mongolia. The inquiry began on 11 April 2016. Within the scope of these inquiries, the NHRCM is examining the implementation of the employees of the army units’ rights to safe and healthy working condition, wage adequate for work, holiday, and pension, and other relevant rights guaranteed in domestic laws and international treaties and enlisted servicemen’s right to safe and healthy environment,...
Commissioner Oyunchimeg Purev participated in the UN Asian regional forum on business and human rights, which was held by the UN OHCHR on 19 and 20 April 2016 in Doha, Qatar, She made presentations on the competence and role of the NHRCM in providing access to remedy at the North East and Central Asian session in the morning of 20 April and presented the NHRCM non-judicial mechanism for access to remedy in business and human rights field in the afternoon session and introduced the possibilities...
Within the scope of cooperation with the General Staff of the Armed Force of Mongolia, National Human Rights Commission of Mongolia conducted training among the commissioned and non commissioned officers and trainers of the Peacekeepers training Center of Armed Force Unit 0311 to raise awareness to protect and respect human rights and to take guidance of human rights based approach in their activity on 14 April 2016....
