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Many of Mongolia’s laws and policies attempt to protect and better the lives of Mongolian youth. The legal age of majority occurs at 18, wherein Mongolian young adults are able to vote and assume legal authority. [15] The transition from a Soviet satellite state to a sovereign nation in 1992 fueled major structural changes in Mongolian youth ...
UNICEF, as the UN body responsible for children's rights under the convention, is required to promote its effective implementation and to encourage international cooperation in support of children. UNICEF is also represented when the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child considers each country's implementation of the Convention every five years.
UNICEF (/ ˈ j uː n i ˌ s ɛ f / YOO-nee-SEF), originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, officially United Nations Children's Fund since 1953, [a] is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide.
This fund 'was created in memory of Matthew Girvin, a UNICEF program officer stationed in Mongolia who was killed in a helicopter crash in January 2001, to support highly qualified secondary school graduates from low-income families in the rural areas of Mongolia to study at some of the best state institutions of higher learning within Mongolia.
In 1999, Mongolia hosted the 11th Asia Pacific/First Mongolian National Rover Moot. As of 2004, Mongolyn Skautyn Kholboo had 8,209 members, in every province and district of Mongolia. Scouts in Mongolia had a successful third National Jamboree August 10–17, 2004 in the Khentii Mountains in the outskirts of Ulaanbaatar.
Academic freedom and cultural freedom are respected, as are the freedom of assembly and association. Mongolians are free to move within the country, travel abroad, move abroad and move back from abroad. Foreigners living in Mongolia must obtain exit visas in order to leave the country. Elections are relatively free and fair.
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Mongolia has been and continues to be affected by emerging infectious diseases, including echinococcosis, rabies, tularemia, anthrax, foot-and-mouth disease, and plague. [18] Since 1980, the WHO has received case reports of human plague cases in Mongolia; each year, approximately 40 people are diagnosed with plague caused by Yersinia pestis ...