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Introduction
Media Specialized Lawyers, 1999
Newspapers in Education: Getting Started, 1999
Media and Corruption, round table,1999
Media legal Reform, 2000
Media and Women, 2001
Gender School for journalists, 2002
Freedom of Expression and Defamation, 2003
Public's Right to Know and Public Broadcasting, 2003
Democratic Elections and Media, 2004

Free and Fair ( Temporary Press Jury, Ethical Principles on Election Coverage), 2004

Media for Transparent Governance, (new) 2004-2005

Media monitoring (new) 2005

President election , (new) 2005

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The following types of violation on journalist's rights are existing in real terms:

 •  Censorship within a media outlets
•  be afraid of a media outlet's owners and managers
•  be afraid of an editor in chief
•  be worried about loose a job
•  unable to express idea and opinion freely
•  -Devalue a professional rating of journalists
•  -Demand illegally to make a correction of published materials, threat to bring the journalists to the court.
•  Demand strongly to ask a forgiveness  
•  Review all tax payment of media outlets and make an unnecessary control
•  including occupational hygiene, health and social insurance
•  Impose sanctions on a financing of media outlets or coerce to obstacle an investment
•  Make a phone call using pre-paid card to pressurize a journalists •  Publish a false correction on published materials by using chargeable service of media outlets.
•  Most of journalist are afraid to lose a reputation and waste a time and usually   publish   a unwanted correction.
•  Not developed a freelance journalism in Mongolia because of this, freelancers can not publish their materials   on the newspapers
•  Due to the financing, most of newspapers often refuse to publish a outsider's materials    
•  Due to the program policy of media outlet's, well known journalists can not publish their materials on the other newspapers or journals.
•  By the rule of artistic competition a journalist should participate on behalf of the related organization on it and freelancers have no chance to involve.  
•  Call journalists to a legal organization regarding their published materials
•  To become a victim of unfair action of justice,   though a journalist   tried to reveal a truth   
•  Be punished that a journalist expressed freely his idea and opinion
•  By the law   a victim should prove himself that   a his   identity humiliated however in court procedure it never realized and only journalist punished for his publication.

Are we, journalists able to solve these problems and defend our rights ?

•  To reduce to publish a false correction which used charge service of media outlet's
•  To organize a training among legal officials regarding on journalist's professional rights
•    To educate legal officials not to bring a journalists to the criminal charge and regulate their cases by Civil Law.
•  To establish a nationwide monitoring network on violation of journalist's rights
•  To provide an access to information for the journalists
•  Program policy of media outlets must be apart from the an influence of media outlet's owners.
•  To reduce an interest of that people who tries to regain their reputation by issuing a court decision. There is a tend that a most of people didn't satisfy with   asked a pardon of journalists   or imposed fine on media outlets.

Introduction
Journalist's round table meeting on development of information strategy
Law consultancy meeting on free expression violations
The following types of violation on journalist's rights are existing in real terms:
Survey report

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