Oyungerel Tsedevdamba
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Oyungerel Tsedevdamba

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Oyungerel Tsedevdamba is a well-known human rights activist. She proposed, advocated and eventually played a leading role in adopting laws to de-criminalize libel and abolish the death penalty in Mongolia. Oyungerel grew up a rural herder girl in communist Mongolia. She received a scholarship to study planning economy in the USSR and, after the fall of communism, she earned a Master’s Degree in Market Economy in Russia. She subsequently received a Master’s Degree from Stanford University where she was a Fulbright Fellow. She is an Eisenhower Fellow and a World Fellow of Yale University. From 2000 to 2004 Oyungerel headed Liberty Center, at that time Mongolia’s most active human rights watchdog. She later served as Adviser to the Prime Minister of Mongolia and subsequently to the President of Mongolia on human rights and civic participation. From 2010 to 2016 Oyungerel served as president of the 90,000 member Democratic Women’s Union. In 2012-2016 she served as a Member of the State Great Hural (Parliament) of Mongolia and in 2012-2014 she was appointed Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism. In 2015 Oyungerel was awarded the Chevalier de L'ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Ministry of Culture of France for her efforts to end the death penalty in Mongolia and her contributions to preserving and protecting Mongolia’s cultural heritage including the much publicized Tyrannosaurus bataar case. Oyungerel was also awarded the Order of the Red Banner for Meritorious Labour Service and Polar Star Order by the President of Mongolia for her service to Mongolia’s democracy, human rights and cultural heritage protection. Oyungerel is the author of nine books and co-author of three with Jeffrey. Jeff and Oyungerel live in Ulaanbaatar and run Local Solutions, an NGO that promotes local community’s ingenuity and involvement in its development and environmental protection. Currently, Oyungerel is leading a social movement “Let’s Change Our Toilets” to help Mongolians adapt global warming with help of environmentally friendly dry toilets. Oyungerel is married to Jeffrey Falt. They co-authored two novels, The Green Eyed Lama and Sixty White Sheep, and live in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
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