In June 23, Globe International NGO held a seminar for journalists in the Mongolian Press Institute titled, “Whether journalists can exercise their rights.” When journalists tend to write articles on classified or socially hidden issues, they should get into the habit of receiving law consultation on all stages from collecting information to distribution, stated lawyer D.Munkhburen.

During the seminar project coordinator D.Munkhburen introduced content of the new manual on, “Your right to protection,” and Mrs. M.Altantsetseg, vice president of the Mongolian Trade Union Association, and Globe’s lawyer G.Davaakhuu, held lectures on “Labor contracts and how they end,” as well as “Some issues of social welfare.” They also answered questions from interested journalists. Almost 20 journalists such as Globe International NGO’s monitors, TV and radio journalists participated in the seminar.

The author of the manual, D.Munkhburen, stated that we paid more attention on how to work based on positive references of the current law in situations such as lack of law protection, information freedom and secret information sources. However, in the limited law environment for fully implementing press freedom, developing independent media, conviction by strict criminal law references concerning reputations, honor, authority, defamation, libel and state secrecy is protected within a too broad frame.