AKIPRESS.COM - Although the Mongolia constitution guarantees many fundamental rights, and has as its goal a humane and civil society, according to the U.S. State Department Human Rights Report, the country suffers from human rights abuse including corruption, widespread domestic violence, police abuse of prisoners and detainees, arbitrary arrests, and human trafficking, says Digital Journal.

Many Mongolians remain ignorant of their human rights a legacy of the country’s six decades as a satellite of the Soviet Union.

Scientologist and Youth for Human Rights International Ambassador Sandra Lucas, during her business travel, to the country presented the Youth for Human Rights (YHR) educational initiative to the Program Director of the National Mongolian Human Rights Commission who agreed that the program is vital to his country.

Youth under 18 comprise 45 percent of the Mongolian population, making schools the obvious starting point for the initiative. A memorandum of understanding was signed, and the Mongolian Human Rights Commission Director organized human rights training for 40 teachers and translated all YHR materials into Mongolian. A pilot program provided this human rights education to the students of 20 secondary schools in the capital of Ulaanbaatar.

Teachers incorporated the 30 human rights lessons into their history curricula.

With 4,940 Mongolian students receiving YHR training through the three-year pilot, the program will soon be implemented in all Mongolian schools.

The Church of Scientology supports United for Human Rights and its youth program Youth for Human Rights.