Lao People's Democratic Republic

• Amnesty International 41
• Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) 3
• Asylum Aid 3
• Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada 9
• Child Soldiers International 3
• Committee to Protect Journalists 4
• Forum 18 1
• France: Commission des Recours des Réfugiés (CRR) 1
• France: Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides (OFPRA) 1
• Freedom House 41
• Geospatial Information Section 2
• HelpAge International 1
• Human Rights Watch 18
• Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) 21
• International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) 1
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 4
• International Federation for Human Rights 23
• International Trade Union Confederation 6
• Jamestown Foundation 1
• Japan: District Courts 1
• Minorities at Risk Project 2
• Minority Rights Group International 12
• National Legislative Bodies / National Authorities 2
• Norwegian Refugee Council/Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (NRC/IDMC) 2
• Open Society Foundations (OSF) 1
• Radio Free Asia 212
• Refugees International 2
• Reporters Without Borders 10
• UN Commission on Human Rights 2
• UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) 3
• UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) 8
• UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 8
• UN Development Programme (UNDP) 1
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• UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 9
• UN Human Rights Council 10
• UN News Service 10
• UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 5
• UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) 1
• UN Security Council 4
• United Kingdom: Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1
• United Nations 1
• United States Commission on International Religious Freedom 15
• United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants 2
• United States Congressional Research Service 1
• United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit 3
• United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit 5
• United States Department of State 66
• WRITENET 1

• Annual Reports 188
• Case Law 10
• Chronologies of Events 1
• Comments on Concluding Observations 1
• Compilations 2
• Concluding Observations 4
• Conference Reports 1
• Country News 287
• Country Operations Plans 1
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• Country Reports 41
• Maps 4
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• Query Responses 9
• Regional Reports 7
• Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations 2
• Sessional Reports 5
• Speeches/Statements 3
• States Parties Reports 10
• Thematic Reports 6

• Abduction 6
• Abuse of psychiatry 2
• Access to procedures 1
• Access to water 28
• Adoption 1
• Ainu 1
• Airports 3
• Amazonian Indians 1
• Animist 14
• Appeal / Right to appeal 1
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 34
• Armed forces / Military 8
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 6
• Assemblies of God 5
• Asylum policy 2
• Asylum-seekers 18
• Baha'i 13
• Baptist 5
• Barabaig 1
• Batwa 1
• Border conflict 1
• Border controls 1
• Border crossers 1
• Buddhist 16
• Catholic 13
• Child labour 7
• Child prostitution 10
• Child soldiers 4
• Children's rights 34
• Children-at-risk 23
• Chin 2
• Christian 26
• Citizenship / Nationality law 1
• Civil and political rights 4
• Climate change (including environmental migrants) 1
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 1
• Conflict resolution 1
• Conflict situation 1
• Confucianist 9
• Constitutional law 1
• Contemporary forms of slavery 2
• Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 6
• Copts 1
• Corruption 17
• Crime prevention 2
• Criminal justice 11
• Death in custody 1
• Death penalty 11
• Demobilization / Disarmament 1
• Democracy 8
• Denial of refugee status 2
• Deportation / Forcible return 31
• Disappeared persons 74
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 33
• Domestic violence 4
• Drug trafficking 11
• Economic, social and cultural rights 16
• Effective protection 1
• Effective remedy 2
• Elections 15
• Emigrants 1
• Equality before the law 2
• Evangelical 5
• Exiles 3
• Expulsion 3
• Extradition 1
• Extrajudicial executions 15
• Extreme poverty 5
• Falun Gong 1
• Family reunification 1
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 1
• Forced labour 27
• Forced marriage 3
• Forced relocation 2
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 24
• Freedom of assembly and association 48
• Freedom of conscience 6
• Freedom of expression 74
• Freedom of information 27
• Freedom of movement 19
• Freedom of religion 76
• Freedom of speech 21
• Gender discrimination 22
• Gender-based persecution 2
• Good governance 5
• HIV and AIDS 10
• Hadza 1
• Han 1
• Himba 1
• Hmong 87
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 32
• Hui 1
• Human Rights Council 10
• Human rights activists 23
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 49
• Human rights monitors 10
• Humanitarian assistance 1
• Illegal entry 1
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 3
• Immigrants 1
• Immigration Detention 6
• Impunity 8
• Independence of judiciary 8
• Indigenous persons 7
• Internal armed conflict 1
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 7
• International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CPED) 1
• International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) 4
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 1
• International protection 3
• Inuit 1
• Involuntary repatriation 9
• Jehovah's Witness 5
• Karen 4
• Khmer 1
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 6
• Lao Sung 1
• Lao Tai 1
• Lao Theung 2
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 7
• Livelihoods 3
• Location of camps 1
• Lutheran 5
• Maasai 1
• Magyars 1
• Maternal and child health care 3
• Mental health 4
• Methodist 7
• Migrants 9
• Military operations 1
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 2
• Minorities 33
• Minority rights 7
• Mon 2
• Mormon 5
• Muslim 13
• Nagas 1
• Non-refoulement 2
• Older persons 1
• Orang Asli 2
• Pentecostal 1
• Persecution based on nationality 2
• Persecution based on political opinion 10
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 5
• Persons with disabilities 7
• Police 15
• Political parties 2
• Political situation 5
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 1
• Pre-trial detention 2
• Prison or detention conditions 24
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 18
• Protestant 14
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 4
• Public health 5
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 12
• Refoulement 5
• Refugee / Asylum law 1
• Refugee camps 2
• Refugee identity documents 2
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 1
• Refugees 26
• Registration 1
• Rejected asylum-seekers 2
• Religious discrimination 34
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 20
• Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 1
• Resettlement 11
• Residence permits / Residency 1
• Return conditions 1
• Returnees 2
• Right to a nationality 4
• Right to development 1
• Right to education 5
• Right to employment 7
• Right to food 7
• Right to health 1
• Right to registration at birth 3
• Right to seek asylum 1
• Right to self-determination 4
• Rights of non-citizens 1
• Rohingya (Arakanese) 2
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 12
• SGBV 18
• Safe third country 1
• Sale of children 2
• Sami 1
• San Bushmen 1
• Security forces 8
• Security situation 4
• Seventh Day Adventist 8
• Sexual and reproductive rights 2
• Shan 4
• Shia 4
• Single heads of household 1
• Small arms 1
• Smuggling of persons 3
• Social group discrimination 14
• Statelessness 5
• Sunni 6
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 4
• Taoist 5
• Terrorism 13
• Threats / Intimidation 2
• Tibetan 1
• Torture 2
• Trafficking in persons 63
• Uighur 2
• Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 16
• Visas 1
• Well-founded fear of persecution 2
• Witnesses 1
• Women's rights 27
• Women-at-risk 16
• Work permits 1

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• Amnesty International - Laos
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Lao People's Democratic Rep
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Laos
• Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) - Laos
• 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
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Lao (People's Democratic Republic of)
• Radio Free Asia (RFA) - Laos
• ReliefWeb - Lao People's Democratic Republic (the)
• UNHCR - Lao People's Democratic Republic
• 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
• United States Department of State: Congressional Research Service Reports (CRS) and Issue Briefs
• World Food Programme (WFP) - Lao People’s Democratic Republic
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Lao People's Democratic Republic