As explained by State Secretary of the Ministry of Justice J.Bayartsetseg, President Ts.Elbegdorj has a draft law against domestic violence ready for submission to  Parliament for approval.  

The President has participated on the morning talk show to exchange views on women rights in conjunction with the celebration of International Women's Day, on March 8, in participation with MONFEMNET's annual meeting on women's rights organized with the President's Office.

MONFEMNET is a national network of Mongolian women. This year's meeting was named “Viewpoints of Women”.

The assembly focused on the topic of accountability of the state according to women’s viewpoints, addressing the issue of national security, individual and economic security, and the security of nature and the environment.

At the end of the meeting President Ts.Elbegdorj addressed the public:

I would like to express my gratitude for the discussion of a very wide range of political issues.

For a long time, the issue of women has been considered as an issue only concerning women. Now this is an issue for Mongolia as a whole. This is a social issue.  We are not talking about women; we are talking about the political structure, and the Constitution of Mongolia.

We are talking about how the government is being supervised, how to change poor structure; we are presenting our suggestions regarding this and trying to find proper solutions.  

I have initiated an open discussion at the Civil Hall and gave a presentation and led a discussion regarding this topic.

I would like to submit the draft law before the opening of the spring session of the Parliament. At the spring session, we would like to approve the draft law against domestic violence.

After long discussions and talks about domestic violence, we authored several clauses for the Criminal Law. However, I should point out that the changes made to the Criminal Law are very unclear.

We should note that some of the female MPs have put much attention on this issue. I would like to invite female MPs whose hearts are dedicated to this issue to be included in a working group on domestic violence.