Erdene Batuul
Mongolia

I'm here with a purpose of introducing the current state of human rights protection issue in Mongolia.

According to a recent survey, poverty in last decade shows 12.5% of reduction in urban areas and yet 14% of increase in rural areas, which means we have 0.6% of reduction or very insufficient national poverty alleviation indication.

Although the national average of the poverty extent has been reduced by 1.6% in the last decade, its indication in rural areas rose by 3.6%.

Being represented by reduction of population's real profit and their weakening living standard, the poverty has negative effects such as deterioration of public health, losing access to education and well manners, school drop outs and divorce and crime increase.
　　　
Poverty in Mongolia is mainly caused by low income. Job shortage is the main cause of the low income. Despite some statistical indication shows unemployment has been fallen down, there is skepticism considering certain data and evidences. There are a lot more obscure job shortages in the herders' families too. Also, there are many individuals have a job seeking status on the condition of registering themselves at the local labor regulation office. The status itself is not much of a use and therefore, people don't have incentive to be registered, anyway.
　　　
So, insufficient decrease in poverty leads into breach of many basic rights of our citizens. There are wide spread practice of employers delaying to pay their workers' salary and also not complying with the national minimal wage regulations. Lately, it has been often noticed that employers differentiate job applicants on their physical condition, age and gender.

Caused by the job shortages, under aged children are often forced into labor in order to support not only themselves but also to support their families and relatives. Though, we have laws and regulations that prohibit children's  employment in certain hazardous professions, for the sake of a living, they secretly get engaged with laborious works for a full time as if they were adults. Even further, there are incidents of children working in the night shifts and for overtime. Of course, the legislative organization is taking measures to improve the situation.
　　　
Good economic condition is much more supportive and effective to provide public with jobs and abandoning child labor than setting up just the legal framework. Since the beginning of the national policy of granting some money to children, it has been considered as an important government step toward poverty alleviation, tackling cash export flow out of rural areas and children's rights protection as it has encouraged school children's attendance and the births at this low population rate nation.
　　　
Paying kindergarten children's food cost by the government, not the parents, has played an important step toward the poorer families' children to be enrolled in the preschool education system. In addition, implementation of the "School lunch" program is another tangible measure toward securing the children's right.