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December 2020
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Press Release
Joint Statement of the UN Country Team in Mongolia on Human Rights Day 2020
  • Human Rights Day is celebrated every year on 10th December as a tribute to when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the universal declaration of human rights in 1948. ‘Faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and value of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women’ has been minted by leaders from every continent as words of hope for humanity. 
November 2020
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Press Release
JOINT STATEMENT of the United Nations in Mongolia on the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence
  • “No More: End Gender-based Violence at Home, in the Workplace, and in Public Spaces”
  • On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, all 11 entities of the United Nations System in Mongolia reiterate the position that violence against women and girls and boys in private and public spaces is a grave violation of their human rights with profoundly detrimental impacts on their physical, psychological, sexual and reproductive health. In the most severe cases, such violence can even cause death. Violence against women and children must stop right now