Lao People's Democratic Republic

• Abduction 3
• Abuse of psychiatry 2
• Access to water 29
• Adoption 1
• Airports 2
• Appeal / Right to appeal 1
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 9
• Armed forces / Military 10
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 2
• Asylum-seekers 9
• Border conflict 3
• Border controls 2
• Buddhist 1
• Child prostitution 2
• Child soldiers 1
• Children's rights 2
• Children-at-risk 1
• Christian 9
• Civil and political rights 2
• Conflict resolution 1
• Contemporary forms of slavery 1
• Corruption 14
• Criminal justice 4
• Death penalty 1
• Demobilization / Disarmament 1
• Democracy 4
• Deportation / Forcible return 17
• Disappeared persons 54
• Domestic violence 1
• Drug trafficking 15
• Economic, social and cultural rights 2
• Effective remedy 1
• Elections 3
• Evangelical 1
• Exiles 3
• Expulsion 1
• Extradition 1
• Extreme poverty 1
• Forced labour 2
• Forced relocation 3
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 4
• Freedom of assembly and association 12
• Freedom of expression 17
• Freedom of information 8
• Freedom of religion 11
• Freedom of speech 3
• Gender discrimination 1
• Gender-based persecution 1
• Good governance 3
• HIV and AIDS 2
• Hmong 23
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 33
• Human Rights Council 1
• Human rights activists 26
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 13
• Human rights monitors 5
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 3
• Immigrants 1
• Immigration Detention 2
• Impunity 3
• International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CPED) 1
• Involuntary repatriation 7
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 4
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 1
• Livelihoods 3
• Mental health 1
• Migrants 2
• Minorities 6
• Minority rights 3
• Non-refoulement 2
• Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 1
• Persecution based on political opinion 5
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 1
• Persons with disabilities 2
• Police 4
• Political parties 2
• Political situation 4
• Pre-trial detention 1
• Prison or detention conditions 4
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 8
• Protestant 1
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 4
• Public health 2
• Refoulement 3
• Refugees 9
• Religious discrimination 1
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 1
• Resettlement 4
• Return conditions 1
• Right to education 2
• Right to justice 2
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 3
• Sale of children 1
• Security situation 4
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 1
• Sexual and reproductive rights 1
• Small arms 1
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 1
• Threats / Intimidation 2
• Torture 1
• Trafficking in persons 21
• Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 3
• Well-founded fear of persecution 1
• Witnesses 1
• Women's rights 2
• Women-at-risk 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