Ulaanbaatar
About measures for implementation of human rights recommendation
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A meeting-discussion-training ran Thursday at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on realizing recommendations for the human rights status.
Co-organized by Mongolia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the “UPR info” international NGO, the UN Permanent Representative Office and the Open Society Forum, the event brought together 70 servants and representatives of all Ministries, related agencies, the Parliamentary Office, the State Supreme Court, the General Prosecutorial Office, the National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR), NGOs on human rights.
The “UPR info” NGO introduced to the gathered essential understanding about regular discussion of human rights status and good experiences of other countries, while the Forum of human rights NGOs presented them proposals on governmental measures for realizing the human rights recommendations, the criteria for evaluating the recommendations’ implementation and necessary measures.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it intends to reflect in the governmental action plan the recommendations’ works, expected results, measures, terms and concerned services. The Ministry also plans to set up a non-staff committee in charge of controlling the recommendations’ implementation, with representation of the NCHR and civil society organizations, and to deploy human rights specialists in all Ministries and agencies.
Every member of the United Nations discusses its status of human rights every 4-5 years at the United Nations Council for Human Rights (UNCHR) and takes promises to realize recommendations from other countries. Mongolia discussed its first ever report on human rights in November of 2010, and the second report was discussed successfully in May this year. Within the discussion of the second report, Mongolia accepted 150 recommendations out of 164 offered by 64 countries.
