Lao People's Democratic Republic

• Annual Reports 66

• Abduction 1
• Access to procedures 1
• Animist 9
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 23
• Assemblies of God 5
• Asylum policy 1
• Asylum-seekers 1
• Baha'i 10
• Baptist 5
• Buddhist 10
• Catholic 10
• Child labour 6
• Child prostitution 5
• Children's rights 18
• Children-at-risk 14
• Christian 8
• Confucianist 9
• Corruption 7
• Criminal justice 4
• Democracy 3
• Deportation / Forcible return 1
• Disappeared persons 16
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 17
• Domestic violence 1
• Economic, social and cultural rights 13
• Effective protection 1
• Effective remedy 1
• Elections 5
• Emigrants 1
• Evangelical 1
• Extrajudicial executions 14
• Forced labour 24
• Forced marriage 2
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 14
• Freedom of assembly and association 24
• Freedom of expression 21
• Freedom of information 5
• Freedom of movement 17
• Freedom of religion 39
• Freedom of speech 21
• Gender discrimination 15
• Gender-based persecution 1
• HIV and AIDS 5
• Hmong 20
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 14
• Human rights monitors 4
• Immigration Detention 1
• Impunity 4
• Independence of judiciary 5
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 1
• International protection 3
• Jehovah's Witness 5
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 5
• Lutheran 5
• Methodist 6
• Migrants 3
• Minorities 9
• Mormon 5
• Muslim 10
• Pentecostal 1
• Persecution based on nationality 1
• Persecution based on political opinion 5
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 3
• Persons with disabilities 5
• Police 10
• Political parties 1
• Pre-trial detention 1
• Prison or detention conditions 10
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 9
• Protestant 10
• Refugees 5
• Registration 1
• Religious discrimination 24
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 14
• Returnees 1
• Right to education 1
• Right to registration at birth 1
• Right to self-determination 4
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 4
• SGBV 14
• Sale of children 1
• Security forces 8
• Seventh Day Adventist 6
• Sexual and reproductive rights 1
• Shia 3
• Smuggling of persons 1
• Social group discrimination 13
• Sunni 5
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 3
• Taoist 5
• Terrorism 10
• Threats / Intimidation 1
• Trafficking in persons 39
• Women's rights 18
• Women-at-risk 13

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• Amnesty International - Laos
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• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Laos
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• Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) - Lao People's Democratic Republic
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC regional delegation in Bangkok
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) - Lao People's Democratic Republic
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• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Lao People's Democratic Republic
• United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking (UNIAP)
• United States Department of State - Laos
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