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The Government of Mongolia declared a state of high alert for Ulaanbaatar, citing the rain was the heaviest in the past 50 years. Mongolian Ground Force and civil defense were deployed for rescue efforts. UNICEF and Mongolian Red Cross Society distributed various humanitarian aids to the flood victims. [1]
Mongolia benefited from compulsory primary education under the communist regime in the 20th century, continuing in a similar form today. [17] The fact that 90% of the population speaks Khalka Mongolian as their primary language may help literacy in that resources can be largely focused on one language. [ 18 ]
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.
On Jan. 17, Mongolia’s first uranium mine, Zuuvch-Ovoo, was finally green-lighted with the signing of a $1.6 billion joint investment agreement between its government and French majority state ...
As of 2022, the poverty rate in Mongolia is 27.1%. [1] In 2020, 66% of male and 50% of female are employed. [2] In 2018, Govisümber Province had the highest poverty rate among all provinces in the country with 51.9% poverty rate. And in terms of number of people, Ulaanbaatar had the highest number of people living below poverty rate at 378,200 ...
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.
GENEVA (Reuters) -The United Nations humanitarian office on Friday voiced concern about the hostilities in Khan Younis that have forced more people to flee to Rafah in the far south of Gaza ...
16 June – Foreign Minister of Japan Tarō Kōno seeks cooperation from Mongolia over efforts to settle the issue of past abductions of Japanese nationals by North Korea, as Mongolia maintains friendly ties with Pyongyang. Japan has no ties with North Korea and pushes for further sanctions.