Lao People's Democratic Republic

• Annual Reports 202
• Chronologies of Events 1
• Comments on Concluding Observations 1
• Compilations 1
• Concluding Observations 4
• Country News 367
• Country Operations Plans 1
• Country Profiles 1
• Country Reports 43
• Mission Reports 1
• Query Responses 9
• Regional Reports 9
• Sessional Reports 6
• Speeches/Statements 3
• States Parties Reports 10

• Abduction 7
• Abuse of psychiatry 2
• Access to procedures 2
• Access to water 31
• Adoption 1
• Ainu 1
• Airports 4
• Animist 15
• Appeal / Right to appeal 2
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 40
• Armed forces / Military 12
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 6
• Assemblies of God 5
• Asylum policy 3
• Asylum-seekers 18
• Baha'i 15
• Baptist 5
• Border conflict 3
• Border controls 2
• Border crossers 1
• Buddhist 18
• Catholic 14
• Child labour 8
• Child prostitution 11
• Child soldiers 4
• Children's rights 36
• Children-at-risk 26
• Chin 1
• Chinese 1
• Christian 29
• Civil and political rights 8
• Climate change (including environmental migrants) 1
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 2
• Conflict resolution 1
• Conflict situation 1
• Confucianist 10
• Contemporary forms of slavery 2
• Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 6
• Copts 1
• Corruption 27
• Crime prevention 2
• Criminal justice 12
• Death in custody 1
• Death penalty 14
• Demobilization / Disarmament 1
• Democracy 12
• Deportation / Forcible return 26
• Disappeared persons 90
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 34
• Domestic violence 5
• Drug trafficking 20
• Economic, social and cultural rights 17
• Effective protection 2
• Effective remedy 3
• Elections 19
• Emigrants 2
• Equality before the law 2
• Evangelical 5
• Exiles 3
• Expulsion 3
• Extradition 1
• Extrajudicial executions 15
• Extreme poverty 4
• Falun Gong 1
• Family reunification 1
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 1
• Forced labour 29
• Forced marriage 5
• Forced relocation 3
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 25
• Freedom of assembly and association 59
• Freedom of conscience 6
• Freedom of expression 87
• Freedom of information 34
• Freedom of movement 20
• Freedom of religion 84
• Freedom of speech 25
• Gender discrimination 23
• Gender-based persecution 2
• Good governance 6
• HIV and AIDS 10
• Hmong 83
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 44
• Human Rights Council 9
• Human rights activists 31
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 48
• Human rights monitors 12
• Humanitarian assistance 1
• Illegal entry 1
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 4
• Immigrants 1
• Immigration Detention 6
• Impunity 9
• Independence of judiciary 8
• Indigenous persons 7
• Internal armed conflict 1
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 8
• 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 Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 1
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 3
• International protection 3
• Involuntary repatriation 9
• Jehovah's Witness 5
• Jew 1
• Karen 3
• Khmer 1
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 6
• Lao Sung 1
• Lao Tai 1
• Lao Theung 2
• Legal representation / Legal aid 2
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 7
• Livelihoods 4
• Location of camps 1
• Lutheran 5
• Magyars 1
• Maternal and child health care 2
• Mental health 4
• Methodist 7
• Migrant rights 1
• Migrants 10
• Military operations 1
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 2
• Minorities 36
• Minority rights 8
• Mon 1
• Mormon 5
• Muslim 15
• Nagas 1
• Non-refoulement 2
• Older persons 1
• Orang Asli 1
• Pentecostal 1
• Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 1
• Persecution based on nationality 2
• Persecution based on political opinion 17
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 5
• Persons with disabilities 10
• Police 16
• Political parties 5
• Political situation 8
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 1
• Pre-trial detention 3
• Prison or detention conditions 29
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 19
• Protestant 15
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 4
• Public health 6
• 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 27
• Registration 2
• Rejected asylum-seekers 2
• Religious discrimination 37
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 22
• Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 1
• Resettlement 10
• Return conditions 1
• Returnees 2
• Right to a nationality 1
• Right to development 1
• Right to education 7
• Right to employment 7
• Right to food 6
• Right to justice 3
• Right to liberty and security 1
• Right to life 1
• Right to registration at birth 3
• Right to seek asylum 1
• Right to self-determination 4
• Rohingya (Arakanese) 2
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 16
• Sale of children 2
• Security forces 9
• Security situation 4
• Seventh Day Adventist 8
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 19
• Sexual and reproductive rights 3
• Shan 3
• Shia 4
• Single heads of household 1
• Small arms 1
• Smuggling of persons 3
• Social group discrimination 14
• Statelessness 1
• Sunni 6
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 5
• Taoist 5
• Terrorism 13
• Threats / Intimidation 4
• Torture 4
• Trafficking in persons 68
• Uighur 1
• Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 15
• Visas 1
• Voluntary repatriation 1
• Well-founded fear of persecution 2
• Witnesses 1
• Women's rights 28
• Women-at-risk 16
• Work permits 1

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