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Mongolia’s human rights record to be examined by Universal Periodic Review
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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has announced that Mongolia’s human rights record will be examined by the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group for the third time on Wednesday, 4 November 2020 in a meeting that will be webcast live.
Mongolia is one of the 14 States to be reviewed by the UPR Working Group during its upcoming session taking place from 2 to 13 November. Mongolia’s first and second UPR reviews took place in November 2010 and May 2015, respectively.
The documents on which the reviews are based are:
1) national report - information provided by the State under review;
2) information contained in the reports of independent human rights experts and groups, known as the Special Procedures, human rights treaty bodies, and other UN entities;
3) information provided by other stakeholders including national human rights institutions, regional organizations and civil society groups.
The three reports serving as the basis for the review of Mongolia on 4 November can be found here.
The delegation of Mongolia will be headed by Barsuren Baasandorj, State Secretary of the Ministry of Justice and Home Affairs. And Austria, Eritrea and Peru will be serving as rapporteurs (“troika”) for the review of Mongolia. The UPR Working Group is scheduled to adopt the recommendations made to Mongolia on 6 November.
Background
The UPR is a unique process which involves a periodic review of the human rights records of all 193 UN Member States. Since its first meeting was held in April 2008, all 193 UN member States have been reviewed twice within the first and second UPR cycles. During the third UPR cycle, States are again expected to spell out steps they have taken to implement recommendations posed during their previous reviews which they committed to follow-up on, as well as to highlight recent human rights developments in the country.
