Lao People's Democratic Republic

• Access to water 28
• Adoption 1
• Airports 2
• Appeal / Right to appeal 1
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 2
• Armed forces / Military 9
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 1
• Asylum-seekers 3
• Border conflict 2
• Border controls 2
• Buddhist 1
• Child prostitution 2
• Christian 9
• Corruption 12
• Criminal justice 1
• Democracy 4
• Deportation / Forcible return 7
• Disappeared persons 30
• Drug trafficking 13
• Economic, social and cultural rights 1
• Elections 2
• Evangelical 1
• Exiles 3
• Extradition 1
• Forced labour 1
• Forced relocation 3
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 1
• Freedom of assembly and association 2
• Freedom of expression 14
• Freedom of information 7
• Freedom of religion 8
• Freedom of speech 1
• Hmong 17
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 31
• Human rights activists 10
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 3
• Human rights monitors 3
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 3
• Immigrants 1
• Immigration Detention 2
• Involuntary repatriation 7
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 1
• Migrants 2
• Minorities 1
• Police 3
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 6
• Protestant 1
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 4
• Public health 2
• Refoulement 2
• Refugees 1
• Religious discrimination 1
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 1
• Resettlement 2
• Right to education 2
• Sale of children 1
• Security situation 3
• Sexual and reproductive rights 1
• Small arms 1
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 1
• Threats / Intimidation 2
• Trafficking in persons 18
• Witnesses 1
• Women's rights 1
• 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