LEGAL REFORM NEEDED FOR CHILD PROTECTION
The draft amendment to the Law on Child Protection was developed based on Article 16.11 of the Constitution, Article 19.1 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, to which Mongolia acceded in 1990, and Parliamentary Resolution No. 12 of 2021 on “Guidelines for Improving the Legislation of Mongolia until 2024”.
The law established the legal framework of Mongolia’s child protection system at the national, local and primary levels, and legalized the system and regulation of child protection services in many sectors for the first time in 2016. However, there is a need to improve the coordination, monitoring and evaluation mechanisms for child protection services, according to the bill initiator’s view.
Lawmakers believe that certain changes should be made to the Law on Child Protection in connection with the transfer of social workers from the Ulaanbaatar city administration to the Authority for Family, Child and Youth Development.
Under the current law, there is a no legislation for reporting each case of violence against children to the local family, child and youth development departments and divisions, limiting some children’s rights. In other words, an integrated information delivery system must be established by law.
On the other hand, the implementation of the current law is not effective enough, as bill initiators considered. In particular, since the adoption of the Law on Child Protection and Law on Combating Domestic Violence in 2016, a total of 676 joint teams, 19 temporary shelters and 13 one-stop services have been established at the national level, but violence against children has not decreased.
In Mongolia, child protection services are available for only children affected by domestic violence and in institutionalized forms, such as centralized care and temporary shelters. They are not accessible to vulnerable children who live in remote areas or are not a Mongolian citizen. There is also a lack of support and protection services in a family-like environment.
Therefore, in accordance with the Constitution of Mongolia, there is an urgent need to amend the Law on Child Protection and regulate child protection responses more effectively.
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