In the frame of the implementing project since last October “Monitoring free expression violations and supporting the rights of independent media “ Globe International NGO organized the press conference “ Monitoring free expression violation” on 22 June 2006. It was held at 11 am, at Conference room of the Mongolian Press Institute and took two hours and participated more than 30 people including Globe’s region monitors.

The Globe International NGO is implementing this project with financial support from London’s Open Society Institute through OSF in Mongolia and in partnership with the International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX) and the Moscow Center for Journalists in Extreme Situations (CJES). During the press conference was introduced the examples of the free expression violations and was reviewed the action alerts produced by Globe which received from the Globe’s region monitors through the established monitoring network across Mongolia. According to Ch. Yeruulsuren, Globe’s alert coordinator “Since the network was established, the alerts coordinator has received a total of 25 action alerts from regional monitors. Eight cases where a TV journalist was attacked and where government officials demanded that journalists reveal the source of information were circulated through the IFEX network. For the other cases, action alerts have been distributed through own website”.

North region outline of the monitoring network was introduced by U.Ragchaasuren, Globe’s North region monitor based in Darkhan Uul aimag. G.Davaakhuu, Globe’s lawyer was familiarized participants with the survey’s result of the libel and defamation cases decided in the court between 2001-2005. Moreover he focused on various types of the defamation and libel cases which mostly occurs during the last years. There was a open discussion on libel and defamations. Furthermore G. Narangarav, Globe’s web-editor was presented the new portal website www.monitoring.mn using the internet network also provided the knowledge on the usage of it such us what kind of information posted in it, how to get a free on-line advice from the Globe’s lawyers, how to sent information about local media operations and journalist’s community and so on.