News & Updates
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New regulatory conditions and requirements of the Television, Radio broadcasting and Digital content service was enforced
2011/03/241076
Communications Regulatory Committee adopted resolutions on “General regulatory conditions and requirements of the Digital content service”, “General regulatory conditions and requirements of the Television and Radio broadcasting”, which entered into force on 1st of March, 2011.
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Collection of laws related to media, information transparency and openness were updated
2011/03/221355
Laws that included articles on the regulation of media, information transparency and openness, freedom and right of expression have rapidly increased from 91 in 2001 to 188 regulations as of 31st of December, 2010.
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Public screening of human rights documentaries
2011/03/221505
Globe International successfully organized public screening of human rights documentaries in the frame of project “Advocating Human Rights through Contextualized Information” funded by the British Embassy in Ulaanbaatar. Public Screening held in Black Box theatre on 21 March, 2011.
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Case study on civil and criminal defamation heard by the Mongolian courts in 2009 and 2010
2011/03/201345
Two researches worked on the case study of the civil and defamation cases against media and journalists heard by the Mongolian courts in 2009. We could not access to the cases heard in 2010 because the materials were not arrived in the Capital City Court Archive, so the researchers reviewed the archival documents of nine Ulaanbaatar district courts and materials of 21 aimag courts.
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Recommendation on the media, advocacy activities for successful implementation of medium-term legal programme was issued
2011/03/201356
In the framework of the Enhanced Justice Sector Services project implemented by the Ministry of Justice and Home Affairs with support of World Bank, “Globe International” NGO issued a recommendation on media, advocacy activities for successful implementation of medium-term legal programme.
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60th Anniversary of Mongolian Journalists’ Organization was celebrated
2011/03/081207
60th Anniversary of the establishment of Mongolian Journalists’ Organization was celebrated on 6th of March, 2011. 98 years ago, on this day first issue of Mongolia’s first ever weekly press titled "Shine Toli Khemeekh Bichig" (New Mirror Magazines) was published, as such 6th of March is celebrated as a day of Mongolian press.
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Joint meeting of the working groups on drafting media related laws was organized
2011/03/051525
With an initiative of “Globe International” NGO and in the framework of “Media legal advocacy” project funded by the Embassy of Great Britain and North Ireland, a joint meeting of working groups on drafting and presenting media related laws was organized on 4th of March, 2011 in the Conference hall of the Open Society Forum.
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Government of Mongolia presented a draft law on “Information Transparency, Freedom and Right to Access Information” to the Parliament
2011/01/301285
Government of Mongolia submitted a draft law on “Information Transparency, Freedom and Right to Access Information” to be discussed at the Parliament session on 21st of January, 2011.
Draft law consists of 6 chapters, 25 articles. |
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Final report
2011/01/211476
Globe International was awarded a grant in the amount of 3850 USD for the project “Integrity star” on September 20, 2010. The project is closely linked to the Asia Foundation’s “Integrity Star” program whose purpose is to increase parliamentary voting transparency especially on laws directly or indirectly related to anti-corruption, including responsibility mechanisms, justice, and accountability.
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Progress Report
2011/01/141588
Globe International, a Mongolian NGO has started 12-month project “Transparency Campaigning” at Local Government to Curb Corruption from August 15, 2010 under the funding of the Partnership for Transparency Fund (http://www.ptf.org/).
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