MPS SUBMIT DRAFT AMENDMENT

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A head of the parliamentary Standing committee on state structure A.Bakei and S.Demberel MP Tuesday submitted to the Speaker Z.Enkhbold a draft amendment to the law on National Commission for Human Rights of Mongolia (NCHRM). After the law on the NCHRM was adopted in 2000, the Commission was established in 2001 obliged to monitor, analyze and evaluate an implementation of international agreements and contracts and laws of Mongolia in terms of human rights matters. The law has not been altered since its adoption, and it has been criticized by the international side for not reflecting some essential norms of the Paris Principles. Although basic freedom and rights of the Mongolians are ensured by the Constitution and appraised at a level of the international norms, Mongolia has not formed yet a socio-economic proper conditions and legal environment that would allow to fully realize the human rights. Moreover, it has been revealed that the country is facing several difficulties at a level of realizing norms of the laws and regulations on human rights. By these reasons the law should be amended, "law enforcers must be forced to minimize the violations in ensuring and implementing the related laws, the state mechanism must be refined of protecting and backing human rights during ensuring the interests of victims, and an independent potential of the NCHRM must be fortified," the MPs said.