An Opinion Exchange Meeting was held on March 11, 2009 from 13.30 to 17.00 at Conference Hall “E” of the Government House to discuss about a draft Law on Freedom  of Information. MPs including S. Oyun, Ts. Monkh-Orgil, Su. Batbold and E. Bat-Uul initiated and submitted this draft law to parliament May 2, 2007. The draft was newly developed on the basis of receiving a series of recommendations and suggestions by NGOs.

I received serious head injury when the post-election demonstration I was covering on July 1 riot in Ulaanbaatar. The head wound was under severe condition. I was admitted to the Orthopaedic Trauma Centre in Ulaanbaatar, where I underwent immediate epidural haematoma surgery to remove bone fragments lodged in my brain. 
Thanks to an urgent surgery made by doctors and nurses in Trauma Center, my life was saved. Then it required the second stage treatment or further surgery in procedures only available in foreign countries.

Re-drafting the Freedom of Information law in accordance with several recommendations on the previous law draft by civil society organizations was agreed during meeting of P.Erdenjargal, executive director of OSF and Kh.Naranjargal, President of Globe International with some law initiators on January 7, 2009. The new draft law is available now.

On August 3rd, 2007 the president of Mongolia N.Enkhbayar  has decreed on approval of regulation of activities of public council at anticorruption agency.

Within the framework of a project “Empowering Public Council and curbing corruption”, a first ever consultative meeting of the civil society was held in a meeting hall of the National Legal Center on February 6, 2009. Following speeches and reports were made at the event. It includes:

Goal of the new project is to assist in empowering Public Council that is able to take remarkable contributions to the ACA duties to curb corruption. We anticipate that after six months we will achieve the following objectives:
- Public Council members and civil society groups educated on the efficient Public Council
- Recommendations on better legislation and rules regulating  the Public Council’s efficient functioning produced
- Better cooperation between Public Council, NGOs and other civil society organizations enhanced and strengthened
- The public properly informed on PC existence and their participation increased

The Globe International NGO has condemned the Citizens’ Representative Meeting of Bayan-Olgii, in the far western province of Mongolia, for issuing a non-compentence decision that makes the normal operation of public media unstable.

The Globe International NGO has drawn up a Bill to Amend the Law on Public Radio and Television and submitted it to the Parliamentary Speaker, D. Demberel, Deputy Speakers N. Enkhbold and G. Batkhuu, and the Minister of Justice and Internal Affairs, Ts. Nyamdorj.

 
 Globe International is now only member organization of the Global Forum for Media Development. Some 100 media assistance organisations from 70 countries have joined the Global Forum for Media Development. The GFMD was launched as a membership network at its World Conference in Athens in December.