Globe International NGO has launched a new project called “Increasing Citizen’s Access to Information to Promote Transparency and Integrity in Mongolia” funded by United Nations Democracy Fund. The project will be implemented in the next two years (December 2012, November 2014)

Law on Information Transparency and Right to Information will be effective from December 1, 2011. The purpose of this law is to regulate relations pertaining to ensuring transparency of the state, and rights of citizens and legal entities to seek and receive information.

The Parliament /State Great Khural/ of Mongolia has passed the Law on Information Transparency and Right to Access Information yesterday, June 16, 2011. The Law will be effective from December 1, 2011.

Globe International, a Mongolian NGO completed the two-month project entitled “Information Law Advocacy” started in February 20, 2011 under the funding of the Embassy of Great Britain and North Ireland in Mongolia.

Laws that included articles on the regulation of media, information transparency and openness, freedom and right of expression have rapidly increased from 91 in 2001 to 188 regulations as of 31st of December, 2010.

Two researches worked on the case study of the civil and defamation cases against media and journalists heard by the Mongolian courts in 2009.  We could not access to the cases heard in 2010 because the materials were not arrived in the Capital City Court Archive, so the researchers reviewed the archival documents of nine Ulaanbaatar district courts and materials of 21 aimag courts.

With an initiative of “Globe International” NGO and in the framework of “Media legal advocacy” project funded by the Embassy of Great Britain and North Ireland, a joint meeting of working groups on drafting and presenting media related laws was organized on 4th of March, 2011 in the Conference hall of the Open Society Forum.

Globe International was awarded a grant in the amount of 3850 USD for the project “Integrity star” on September 20, 2010. The project is closely linked to the Asia Foundation’s “Integrity Star” program whose purpose is to increase parliamentary voting transparency especially on laws directly or indirectly related to  anti-corruption, including responsibility mechanisms, justice, and accountability.

On September 22, 2010, the NGO Globe International requested Ts.Sharavdorj, head of the parliamentary office of Mongolia, to become au fait with detailed notes of sessions which discussed all laws, resolutions and other legal documents from the year 2008, and to copy some necessary documents. The request was made within the framework of the “Integrity Star” monitoring project.

Globe International is starting two-month project to look at the political will of the MPs to combat corruption through using anti-corruption legislative scorecard as monitoring tool. The proposed project is closely linked to the Asia Foundation’s “Integrity Star” program with purpose to increase parliament transparency on voting, especially on laws directly or indirectly related to the anti-corruption, responsibility mechanism, justice and accountability.