WJP Human Rights in Mongolia

Mongolia maintains overall rule of law stability, leading the region in personal security and workplace protections, while simultaneously facing significant decade-long contractions across core civil liberties and privacy.

Below, we break down the findings from WJP’s 2025 Human Rights in Mongolia report.

 

Stability in a Global Recession

While 68% of countries worldwide experienced a decline in the rule of law this year, Mongolia’s performance remained stable, with an overall score of 0.53, placing it 67th globally out of 143 countries.

  • Regional Standing: Mongolia ranks 8th out of 15 in East Asia and the Pacific.

  • Strongest Performance: Order and Security remains its highest pillar at 0.76.

     

Graphic showing WJP Rule of Law Index 2025 Changes Over Time


Regional Strengths in Security and Labor:

  • Mongolia leads its Asian regional peers in the right to life and security.
  • Labor rights recovered by +3.5% over the last five years to 0.55, placing Mongolia among the region's top performers behind only Hong Kong SAR (0.60), the Republic of Korea (0.62), and Japan (0.75).
  • Protection from expropriation without due process remains below the regional average, signaling limited safeguards for property owners when government intervention occurs.

 

Historic Highs in Civil Fairness & Due Process

  • Discrimination in civil justice reached a ten-year peak of 0.60 in 2025, surpassing the global average and ranking 4th among regional peers.
  • Administrative proceedings also achieved decade-best timeliness with reduced delays (0.55).

  • Due process of law and the rights of the accused in criminal courts climbed to a ten-year high of 0.52.

     

Chart showing Fair and Impartial Justice Among Regional Peers



Severe Erosion of Judicial Independence & Civil Liberties

  • Improper government influence in criminal justice saw the sharpest decline of any justice indicator, falling -27.0% since 2015 to a low of 0.34.
  • Criminal justice impartiality also slipped by -9.3% over the last five years, and civil court independence dropped -8.6% over the decade.

  • Four core civil liberties reached decade-long lows in 2025. The largest declines are in freedom of assembly and association (-16.1% since 2015), freedom of belief and religion (-17.4%), and freedom from interference with privacy (-23.0%).

     

Chart showing Civil and Political Rights in Mongolia Over the Last Decade

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