Statement of Mongolian Human Rights NGO Forum UPR pre-session on 22d working group, Geneva, 7-10 April 2015
2015/04/14
UPR Info has organised a pre-session meeting in Geneva on 7th April 2015 between civil society organisations (CSOs) and Permanent Missions to discuss the human rights situation of Mongolia in the lead up to its review under the Universal Periodic Review on 5th May 2015.
Five representatives of the Mongolian CSOs on behalf of the Human Rights NGO Forum attended the pre-session and they delivered their statements on issues related to the freedom of expression, the status of human rights affected by mining in Mongolia, the artisanal miners’, anti-torture convention, abolition of death penalty, protection from enforced disappearance and domestic violence victim protection, food right and discrimination including the communities of LGBT, disabilities etc.
Globe International Center was represented by Kh.Naranjargal, President and CEO. In her statement she stressed that main concerns firstly, filtering, registration and licensing which is a new obligation imposed for the content service providers in accordance with General Conditions and Requirements on Digital Content Service, CRC, amended on 25 September 2014, right to anonymity is under danger, so that news and information websites are obliged to place the IP addresses of their users on the tops of their comments. She also raised an issue radical increase of the criminal defamation cases against journalists and Twitter bloggers. Full report and statement are available at
Five representatives of the Mongolian CSOs on behalf of the Human Rights NGO Forum attended the pre-session and they delivered their statements on issues related to the freedom of expression, the status of human rights affected by mining in Mongolia, the artisanal miners’, anti-torture convention, abolition of death penalty, protection from enforced disappearance and domestic violence victim protection, food right and discrimination including the communities of LGBT, disabilities etc.
Globe International Center was represented by Kh.Naranjargal, President and CEO. In her statement she stressed that main concerns firstly, filtering, registration and licensing which is a new obligation imposed for the content service providers in accordance with General Conditions and Requirements on Digital Content Service, CRC, amended on 25 September 2014, right to anonymity is under danger, so that news and information websites are obliged to place the IP addresses of their users on the tops of their comments. She also raised an issue radical increase of the criminal defamation cases against journalists and Twitter bloggers. Full report and statement are available at
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UPR Info is a Geneva-based human rights NGO providing information and capacity-building tools on the UPR to facilitate civil society’s engagement in the process. In this regard, the aim of the pre-session is to offer civil society organisations the opportunity to brief diplomats from Permanent Missions in Geneva about the human rights situation in Mongolia and thus influence the content of their statements.