Last year, a total of 444 cases of sexual violence were reported to the Mongolian police. A disturbing development is that 218 of the victims were children – an increase of 26.7 percent on 2018. According to a study by
A recent survey has revealed that health is the most corrupted sector in Mongolia for people with disabilities followed by education, social welfare, the police and the judiciary. The survey was conducted by the Independent Agency against Corruption of Mongolia
Mongolia received a total of 577,300 foreign tourists in 2019, up 9.1 percent on the previous year. Almost a third, or 32.7 percent, were Chinese, 23 percent of arrivals were from Russia and 16.2 percent from South Korea.
Many herders consider that the punishment for stealing livestock is not strict enough. For example, there is the well-known case of thieves who stole eight head of cattle being “let off” after doing some community service – whilst, a youngster
Social media giant Facebook will set up a ‘war room’ to counter misinformation and interference in in the upcoming Mongolian parliamentary election scheduled for June 2020.
With support from its US and Irish HQ’s, Facebook will provide 24-hour monitoring of content
Canadian ophthalmologist Dr. Justin French and orthoptist/ophthalmic medical technologist Wanda McFarlane visited Mongolia as part of a contingent to treat preventable blindness in the country.
Dr French has travelled to Mongolia for three consecutive years as part of the Mongolian-Canadian Medical
The Mongolian Red Cross Society (MRCS) has activated its Early Action Protocol for Dzud. The EAP is to be triggered if three or more provinces have more are at risk of a ‘dzud’ – as extreme winter conditions are known