Globe International successfully organized public screening of human rights documentaries in the frame of project “Advocating Human Rights through Contextualized Information” funded by the British Embassy in Ulaanbaatar. Public Screening held in Black Box theatre on 21 March, 2011.

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.

In the framework of the Enhanced Justice Sector Services project implemented by the Ministry of Justice and Home Affairs with support of World Bank, “Globe International” NGO issued a recommendation on media, advocacy activities for successful implementation of medium-term legal programme.

60th Anniversary of the establishment of Mongolian Journalists’ Organization was celebrated on 6th of March, 2011. 98 years ago, on this day first issue of Mongolia’s first ever weekly press titled "Shine Toli Khemeekh Bichig" (New Mirror Magazines) was published, as such 6th of March is celebrated as a day of Mongolian press.

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.

Government of Mongolia submitted a draft law on “Information Transparency, Freedom and Right to Access Information” to be discussed at the Parliament session on 21st of January, 2011.
Draft law consists of 6 chapters, 25 articles.

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.

Globe International, a Mongolian NGO has started 12-month project “Transparency Campaigning” at Local Government to Curb Corruption from August 15, 2010 under the funding of the Partnership for Transparency Fund (http://www.ptf.org/).

Globe International strongly condemns the amendment of December 30, 2010 to the Law on parliamentary session procedure. The amendment shuts the door on journalists for Standing Committee meetings by stating: ”The right to broadcast parliamentary activities through the media will be decided and given to the assembled journalists before each session, considering the requesting media, the journalists’ working experience, and their professional skills.”

Globe International was awarded a grant in the amount of 6,615 USD for the project “Enabling Environment for a Free and Independent Media” in July 2010.  The purpose of this 5-month project is to contribute to the development of good and accountable governance by promoting supportive legal media able to significantly contribute to the consolidation of democracy in Mongolia.