Government organizations:

• The President of Mongolia
  http://www.president.mn/

• The State Great Khural

  http://www.parl.gov.mn

• The Government of Mongolia
  http://www.pmis.gov.mn/

Human rights data base

• Human Rights Index of United Nations Documents

• http://www.legalinfo.mn

• Human Rights Library of University of Minnesota, USA

• www.universalhumanrightsindex.org 

• www.umn.edu/humanrts/

• Human Rights Education Associates

• www.hrea.org

• Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights, UN

• http://www.ohchr.org/

• International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for Protection and Promotion of Human Rights

• http://www.nhri.net/

• Asia Pacific Forum of Human Rights National Institutions

• http://www.asiapacificforum.net/ 

• International Labour Organization

• http://www.ilo.org/

OYUNCHIMEG, Commissioner

Place of birth: Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

Year of birth: 1964

Profession: Lawyer

Graduated from:

• Secondary school No 6 in Ulaanbaatar in 1972
• Secondary school of Law in 1982
• Erkhuu State University in USSR and State University of Mongolia from 1987 to 1993

Academic rank: Doctor of Laws, Deputy Professor

Career:

• Prosecutor supervising registration and investigation processes of criminal cases in the Prosecutor’s Offices of Bayanzurkh and Bayangol Districts and Ulaanbaatar City from 1992 to 2001.
• Senior officer and Director of the Secretatriat in National Human Rights Commission of Mongolia from 2002 to 2007.
• Commissioner of National Human Rights Commission of Mongolia since 2007.

Awards:

• Best worker of the Prosecutor’s Office
• Best worker of Public Service
• Best worker of Legal Service
• Order of “Altan Gadas”.

BYAMBADORJ Jamsran, Chief Commissioner,

Place of birth: Darvi soum, Khovd Province in 1954.

Year of birth: 1954

Profession: Lawyer

Graduated from:

• Secondary school Khovd Province in 1972,
• Secondary school of Law in 1975, and
• Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1985.

Academic rank: Doctor of Laws.

Career:

• Coordinator in the Executive Administration of People’s Representatives Assembly in Tuv Province from 1975 to 1979
• Lecturer in the Institute of the Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party from 1985 to 1990
• Lecturer in the Institute of Politics of People’s Great Khural from 1990 to January 25, 1992
• Member of State Baga Khural of Mongolia from January, 1992 to June, 1992
• Member of the State Great Khural of Mongolia three times from 1992 to 2004
• Deputy Speaker of the State Great Khural of Mongolia and Leader of the faction of Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party in the State Great Khural from 2000 to 2004
• Member of the Constitutional Tsets of Mongolia from 2004 to 2005
• Chairman of the Constitutional Tsets of Mongolia from 2005 to 2010
• Chief Commissioner of National Human Rights Commission of Mongolia since 2010.

Awards:

• Honour Medal of Labour
• Order of "Altan gadas”
• Honoured Lawyer of Mongolia

Ganbayar Nanzad, Commissioner
Place of birth: Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

Year of birth: 1953                    
Profession:  Lawyer and politics

Graduated from:

• Secondary school No 24 in Ulaanbaatar
• Faculty of Law, University of Irkutsk, and Irkutsk University of Politics in 1976.

Academy rank:

• Master of Laws 

Career:

• Instructor and a head of division in the Supreme Court and a member of the Supreme Court from 1976 to 1984
• Chairman and Arbitrator General in the Ulaanbaatar City Court from 1984 to 1987
• Senior instructor in the Central Committee of the Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party from 1987 to 1990
• Member of the State Baga Khural and Chairman of the Standing Committee on legal affairs from 1990 to 1992
• The First Deputy Minister of Culture from 1992 to 1993
• Prosecutor General of Mongolia from 1993 to 1999
• Advisor to the Minister of Justice from 1999
• Executive Secretary in the General Council of the Court from 2000 to 6 February 2013
• Commissioner of National Human Rights Commission of Mongolia since 7 February 2013

Awards:

• State Prime Legal Counselor in 1993
• Jubilee Medal “60 Years of People’s Revolution” in 1981
• Order of Red banner of Labour in 2000
• State Councilor first class in 2000
• Jubilee Medal “80 Years of People’s Revolution” in 2001
• Order of Sukhbaatar in 2006
• Jubilee Medal “800^th Years of the Empire of Great Mongolia” in 2006
• Honoured Lawyer of Mongolia in 2012.

Human Rights Commissioners

National Human Rights Commission of Mongolia has started implementing a project named “Strengthening national human rights oversight capacity in Mongolia” with support of UNDP. This project is going to continue from 2012 to 2014, and it aims to refine national mechanism to supervise the implementation of human rights in Mongolia by conducting surveys and monitoring over and making assessments and developing reports on the human rights problems urgent in nowadays development of Mongolia, giving assistance to the relevant authorities and organization in fulfilling their legal duties and responsibilities to protect human rights and to resolve human rights related problems, and promoting human rights education of the public.

The main outcome from the project is defined as the following three outputs:

1) Enhanced strength of the NHRCM to focus on issues-based monitoring ver human rights.

2) Improved complaints handling and case management.

3) Strengthened capacity to promote public education and outreach the local areas.

The goals, planned activities, and intended outputs of the project have been defined in accordance with the United Nations Development Assistance Framework(2012-2016) and 2012-2014 Strategy plan of the NHRCM.

Within the first quarter of the implementation of the project, the NHRCM plans to conduct surveys human rights issues related to extractive industry, mining sector development, business organizations and carry out inquiries and monitoring works to reveal human rights problems such as implementation of right to health and red tape or bureaucracy.

Strengthening national human rights oversight capacity in Mongolia Project Main achievements in 2012 [61.65 Kb] (Count: 52)

National Human Rights Commission of Mongolia is a member of the following organizations.

·     International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for Promotion and Protection of Human Rights

·     Asia-Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions

The Commission has been actively participating in the activities of Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions as its full member. The 10^th annual meeting of Asia Pacific Forum was held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia in 2005 successfully.

Memoranda of understanding

We have been keeping sustainable cooperation with interantional and regional organizations, NHRIs, and government and non-government organizations

The Commission established a memorandum of understanding with NHRC of the Republic of Korea in 2009 aiming to protect Mongolian immigrant workers and Mongolian women married to foreigners.

Furthermore, domestically the Commission signed memoranda with the following organizations in order to expand cooperation with them and improve human rights education of their employees:

• General Police Department
• State Special Inspection Agency
• General Staff of Armed Force
• General Authority for Border Protection
• General Court Decision Department
• General Prosecutor’s Office
• Confederation of Mongolian Trade Unions

Since UN General Assembly adopted Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in December, 2006, National Human Rights Commission has taken much effort on having it ratified by the State Great Hural of Mongolia. Briefing about activities on this by the Commission is as follows:

• The Commission has carried out wide range campaign of training and promotion on the Convention. The Commission, for the purpose of acquainting content and importance of the Convention to the decision-makers, public, citizens with disabilities, and civil society organizations working on the issues related to the rights of persons with disabilities, published and released “Rights of people with disabilities”, “UN Convention on the Rights of Person with Disabilities” manual for decision-makers, Guidebook “ABC for Right Communication”, simplified version of “Convention on the Rights of Person with Disabilities” and disseminated to the public. Moreover, handbooks and legal information on people with disabilities were published in the forms of audio and Braille and disseminated to the people with disabilities. The Commission has been having TV programmes, series of trainings, and short advertisements broadcasted on citizens with disabilities in cooperation with media organizations. Delivering a open letter to the member of the State Great Hural calling out to ratify the convention and providing them with detailed and systematic information has become efficient activity.
• Another set of activities was focused on refining the legal environment of persons with disabilities. In 2006 in cooperation with the Office of the President and National Federation of Disabled People’s Organization of Mongolia, the Commission organized National Forum “Rights of the Disabled People” under the auspices of the president. In addition to this, having reflected the issue on persons with disabilities in the 2007 report on human rights and freedoms in Mongolia, it submitted to the State Great Hural a suggestion to refine the legal environment of the disabled people and to ratify the Convention. Based on the report the standing committee on laws released a resolution and supported to improve the legal environment of the disabled people. As a result of these works the State Great Hural made amendments to the 13 laws related to the people with disabilities. Commission’s cooperation with Ministry of Social Welfare and Labour in the draft law on ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities effectively intensified the process of the ratification of the convention.
• The commission supported the efforts of and cooperated with government organizations and non-government organizations to have the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ratified. It was certain contribution to the improvement of human rights knowledge of activists on disabled people’s rights that we organized trainings to strengthen the capability of civil society organizations.

As a result of these actions, Mongolia adopted the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on 13 May, 2009.

In activities to Italian Association Amici di Raoul Follereau – AIFO (Italian non-government organization) cooperated with the Commission as an important partner.

The Commission conducts inquiry in government organizations and business entities in order to detect and eliminate violations of human rights and to restore the violated rights. In addition, it also conducts researches and surveys in specific topics to study urgent human rights problems existing in society and to reveal their causes and effects.

The Commission includes the important results of the researches and surveys in the Annual Human Rights Status Report and delivers certain proposals and recommendations to the relevant authorities.