BILLS SUBMITTED TO PARLIAMENT ON JOINING SOME CONVENTIONS

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Minister of Justice Kh.Temuujin MP Tuesday submitted to the Speaker Z.Enkhbold draft laws on ratifying the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (ICCPED) and the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT). The ICCPED is an international human rights instrument of the United Nations and intended to prevent forced disappearance defined in international law, crimes against humanity. This is one of the vital international documents related to protecting human rights out of the national laws of Mongolia, thus it must be ratified by Mongolian parliament in accordance with the Mongolia’s law on international contracts. Adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2002, the OPCAT is a treaty that supplements to the 1984 United Nations Convention Against Torture. It establishes an international inspection system for places of detention modeled on the system that has existed in Europe since 1987 (the Committee for the Prevention of Torture). The bill on joining the OPCAT bears one article. Furthermore, draft amendments to some laws on the National Commission for Human Rights, on implantation of court decisions, on arresting suspects and defendants, on criminal procedure and on the Takhar Service (equivalent to Marshal Service of USA) have been formulated in conjunction with the bill on joining the OPCAT.