Globe International, a Mongolian NGO celebrated the WPFR on May 3, 2011 at the OSF Conference Room, under slogan “Freedom To Journalists!” and it was attended by 55 journalists and media practitioners.

The event was moderated by G.Galaarid, Globe International Board Chairman. The meeting participants commerated the killed in 2010 journalists in other countries.

Kh.Naranjargal, President and CEO presented on the media freedom situiation and highlighted the main issues in 2010. She also introduced the World Press Freedom maps of the international organizations; Freedom House and Reporters without Borders, Declaration against Interne Censorship.

The UN and UNESCO message to the WPFD was introduced and the main definitions of independent and pluralistic media of the Windhoek Declaration of which 20th anniversary announced this year, was recalled at the event.

Kh.Narantsetseg, Globe International outreach coordinator presented the results of the survey on the civil and criminal defamation cases heard by the Mongolian Courts in ten years, between 1999 and 2009.

The guest Speaker was Ts. Oyundari, director of  the Mongolian National Public Television and she raised the journalism ethics issues.
Baatarkhuyag, Channel 25 and Chuluuntsetseg, Odriin Shuudan, daily spoke on the problems they face. Chuluuntsetseg talked how the policemen and their behavors insult the human dignity and how the police investigations make the journalists frustrating and frightening. She published a material criticizing the lab of the State Supervisory Authority pollutes the land. The case was filed by the head of the Laboratory.
Baatarkhuyag is fighting with L.Gansukh, Member of Parliament and Minister of Nature, Environment and Tourism because of his critical material published in the newspaper. The journalist called other journalists not to be afraid of the criminal cases and instead of it, to continue fighting and prove the wrong-doings and win the cases.

 The 2010 Media Freedom Award “For the Truth!” was handed over to:

- D.Bolormaa, investigative reporter of Zuunii Medee who faces a criminal defamation case because of her story disclosed human trafficking crime

- The investigative section of Odriin Sonin for a series of investigative stories such as land machinations of MPs, false medical histories opened by medical doctors and steal the public funding etc.

Globe International launched Media Freedom Prize in 2009 and it was awarded to 8 journalists who were assaulted on July 1, 2008.

Media Freedom Prize in 2009 

We produced 10 posters educating on the international standards of media freedom and the Mongolian media freedom law banning censorship and informing on the media freedom situation in the world.