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A Career in Human Rights
Nora Ichinnorov Manjaa
MongoliaGALLERYCONVERSATION
It started by watching the ways that Russian and Mongolian guards and customs officials treated travelers.
Once I had to make the journey when I was sick. I was sleeping on the top bunk when a Mongolian guard came in looking for passports. I handed him my passport from my bed, but he started shouting that I should stand up and show them respect. A friend I was traveling with defended me and explained that I was sick, but both of us ended up being yelled at aggressively.
This incident taught me a lesson that human rights and dignities can be violated by the state, especially the police, customs, etc. It also taught me a lesson that if, I, an educated member of this society who knows and respects her rights and dignities, can easily be a subject to abuse by the state then the rights of less sophisticated and poor people can be violated greatly and need protection.
While I was working in the Mongolian Supreme Court Criminal Cases Chamber as a judge assistant I observed that there were many issues in regards to which the laws and the attitudes of judges and all legal professionals need to be changed. I observed that in many incidents the Supreme Court judges affirmed the decisions of the lower courts when they imposed harsh penalties on the victims of domestic violence who had killed their perpetrators in self-defense.
Hence, my career direction took shape.

While I was working in the Mongolian Supreme Court Criminal Cases Chamber as a judge assistant I observed that there were many issues in regards to which the laws and the attitudes of judges and all legal professionals need to be changed. I observed that in many incidents the Supreme Court judges affirmed the decisions of the lower courts when they imposed harsh penalties on the victims of domestic violence who had killed their perpetrators in self-defense.

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