Taking into account that the space and freedom of human rights defenders who are striving for the genuine enjoyment of human rights and freedoms worldwide are limited, threatened, and pressured, and following the 1998 resolution of the UN General Assembly, the Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Individuals, Social Units, and Organizations to Protect and Promote Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (Declaration on Human Rights Defenders) calls on countries to take effective measures.

More than 10 countries around the world have implemented laws guaranteeing the rights of human rights defenders to support the legal protection of human rights defenders.

In 2021, the Law on the Legal Status of Human Rights Defenders was adopted to determine the legal status of human rights defenders in our country, to encourage, respect, protect, and provide conditions for their activities and cooperation, also, to regulate relations related to the structure, organization, and activities of the Human Rights Defenders Committee.

As a result, by the resolution of the State Great Hural dated June 2, 2022, a commissioner in charge of Human Rights Defenders was appointed to the NHRCM, therefore, a non-full-time Human Rights Defenders Committee was established under the Commission with the function of making an opinion on whether the rights of human rights defenders have been violated.

In this way, Mongolia has a mechanism to protect human rights defenders.