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Nongovernmental organizations for human rights gave a media conference urging political forces competing in the 2016 parliamentary elections to reflect more human rights issues in their platforms.
The Forum Asia along with affiliated organizations including the Glob International center, Center for Human Rights and Development and partner organization which is Asian Network for Free Elections called for political parties to reflect in their platforms all aspects of human rights. Thereby, they have delivered major human rights-related recommendations by identifying them in 4 groups covering a broad range of challenges in civil and political rights, right to food and poverty, business and human rights, environment, domestic violence, human trafficking and so on.
After all, they reached a conclusion that Mongolia shall have an independent law against discrimination. Cutting women’s quota in parliament from 30 percent to 20 percent, lack of quota favoring individuals with disabilities and violation of elective rights of some political forces have led to such a conclusion.
In 2015, Mongolia was elected as a member of the UN Human Rights Council. Unfortunately, awareness of human rights has been not built up in Mongolia. This issue finds no reflection in platforms of political parties. In view of this, the organizations are set to hold training on human rights for political parties.

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