AGAINST CENSOSHIP!!! is the message to address to the Mongolian authorities. Although the 1998 Media Freedom Law bans the censorship is existed and the journalists are highly self-censored according to a 2004 survey of Globe International conducted among 200 journalists working in news and current affairs.

Globe International in cooperation with ZORIG Foundation is organising a round table Against Censorship!!! on 2 May of 2006 at the meeting hall of the National Legal Center of Mongolia.
During the round table discussion the participants will be informed in the origin and essence of a censorship, it’s types, censorship and legal environment in Mongolia, difficulties facing journalists in exercising their professional duties. Globe International also will feature its new web portal on monitoring of free expression violations in Mongolia.

Round table participants will discuss and adopt A Call to address to the President, Parliament and Government, media owners and Confederation of Mongolian Journalists to take urgent actions on creation of more favorable envitonmnet for media freedom and development of an efficient media self-regulation. The organisers of the round table believe that Call will urge the Mongolian Government to respect for the journalists rights in their news gathering and dissemination without any censhorship and to efficiently implement the provisions of the National Human Rights Programme, which obliges the Mongolian Government to pass the legislation on Freedom of Iinformation, Protection of Confidential Sources and make ammendments to the strict secrecy and defamatory legislation.

Every year, May 3rd is a date which celebrates the fundamental principles of press freedom, to evaluate press freedom around the world, to defend the media from attacks on their independence and to pay tribute to journalists who have lost theit lives in the exercice of their profession. In the occasion of the World Press Freedom day, the legislators and Governments of the need to respect their commitment to press freedom and is likewise a day of reflection among media professionals about issues of press freedom and professional ethics.

Globe International, Mongolian NGO founded 1999 is actively working in empowerment of the public through their right to know, and promote the freedoms of expression, information and media. Since October 2005 Globe International NGO has been implementing the free expression violation monitoring aimed to accurately analyze the condition of freedom of expression in Mongolian media.

The round table will start at 10.00 a.m. in the Conference Hall of the National Legal Center. For more information please call at 976-11-32 47 64, 976-11-32 46 27