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| MONGOLIA - Now ready for UPR: 50 NGOs gather for preparation |
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| Friday, 29 January 2010 | |
 FORUM-ASIA and its two members,
Centre for Human Rights and Development (CHRD) and Globe International (GI),
organised Mongolian NGOs workshop on the Universal Periodic Review from 10-12
January 2010 in Ulaanbaatar. About 50 people from Mongolian NGOs with different
backgrounds, including environment, human rights, child, labour, women, land
rights, sexual minority, ethnic minority, participated in the event.Mongolia will come under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) by the United Nations Human Rights Council in November this year. The workshop aimed to build capacity of Mongolian human rights defenders regarding the various UN human rights mechanisms, especially the UPR. The participants discussed to identify key issues in Mongolia that need to be prioritised in the UPR stakeholders' report and map out strategies on Mongolian NGOs' activities throughout the process. During 3-day workshop, they came up with their plan and decided to make one joint submission and six individual submissions. They will focus on: human rights violations during the incidents on 1 July 2008; environment and mining; minority rights; migrant and refugee issues; use of voting rights. The UPR is a new mechanism that allows a review of the human rights records of all 192 UN member States once every four years. |
