Byamba-Ochir Byambasuren, a photographic-journalist at the Unuudur daily newspaper, is recovering after undergoing surgery for the second time to supplement his brain bone at Seoul’s Medical University Hospital in the Republic of Korea.  This information was received by telephone from his mother.

Since its inception, the Globe International NGO has published a number of handbooks, texbooks and books dedicated to journalists making efforts to introduce the Universal Declaration of Human Rights-Article 19 and the international laws and norms adopted in conformity therewith.  In response to requests from journalists, the Globe International NGO has published a handbook “Article 19.

With funding from the Netherlands Government, the project ‘Journalists to specialize on nature and the environment’ has been carried out in the environmental field by the Open Society Forum.

Globe International is holding a Round Table entitled “Article 19 and Independent Journalism” on December 8, 2008, at the conference hall of the Open Society Forum.  It is dedicated to the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and is expected to attract over 60 participants.

There were donations totalling over US$5,700 for Byamba-Ochir Byambasuren, photo-journalist for the daily the newspaper Unuudur from the IFJ, from the Norwegian Union of Journalists, the Danish Union of Journalists, the Canadian Journalists Union, local organizations and friends. Byamba-Ochir suffered serious head injuries in the post-election riots of July 1, 2008. 

The Anti-Corruption Authority has awarded the Eagle Broadcasting its 2008 Prize for Integrity ‘Voice of Justice’  the ever first such prize has been awarded to an organization.