Lao People's Democratic Republic

Abduction 8
Abuse of psychiatry 2
Access to procedures 2
Access to water 31
Adoption 1
Ainu 1
Airports 4
Amazonian Indians 1
Animist 15
Appeal / Right to appeal 3
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
Barabaig 1
Batwa 1
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 37
Children-at-risk 26
Chin 2
Chinese 1
Christian 29
Citizenship / Nationality law 1
Civil and political rights 8
Climate change (including environmental migrants) 1
Communal conflict / Social conflict 2
Conflict resolution 1
Conflict situation 1
Confucianist 10
Constitutional law 1
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
Denial of refugee status 2
Deportation / Forcible return 31
Disappeared persons 92
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 34
Domestic violence 5
Drug trafficking 20
Economic, social and cultural rights 17
Effective protection 2
Effective remedy 4
Elections 19
Emigrants 2
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 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 11
Hadza 1
Han 1
Himba 1
Hmong 87
Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 44
Hui 1
Human Rights Council 11
Human rights activists 31
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 50
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 8
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
Inuit 1
Involuntary repatriation 9
Jehovah's Witness 5
Jew 1
Karen 4
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
Maasai 1
Magyars 1
Maternal and child health care 3
Mental health 4
Methodist 7
Migrant rights 1
Migrants 11
Military operations 1
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 2
Minorities 36
Minority rights 8
Mon 2
Mormon 5
Muslim 15
Nagas 1
Non-refoulement 2
Older persons 1
Orang Asli 2
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 11
Residence permits / Residency 1
Return conditions 1
Returnees 2
Right to a nationality 4
Right to development 1
Right to education 7
Right to employment 7
Right to food 7
Right to health 1
Right to justice 4
Right to liberty and security 1
Right to life 1
Right to registration at birth 4
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 16
Safe third country 1
Sale of children 2
Sami 1
San Bushmen 1
Security forces 9
Security situation 4
Seventh Day Adventist 8
Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 19
Sexual and reproductive rights 3
Shan 4
Shia 4
Single heads of household 1
Small arms 1
Smuggling of persons 4
Social group discrimination 14
Statelessness 5
Sunni 6
Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 5
Taoist 5
Terrorism 13
Threats / Intimidation 4
Tibetan 1
Torture 4
Trafficking in persons 70
Uighur 2
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 16
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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UN ready to assist rescue and relief effort as dam collapses in Laos, with many feared dead 24 July 2018 \| Publisher: UN News Service \| Document type: Country News
Laos: Government slanders Sombath Somphone, issues "blanket denials" on enforced disappearances during rights review 18 July 2018 \| Publisher: International Federation for Human Rights \| Document type: Country News
World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples - Laos : Lao Theung July 2018 \| Publisher: Minority Rights Group International \| Document type: Country Reports
World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples - Laos : Tai and other hill peoples July 2018 \| Publisher: Minority Rights Group International \| Document type: Country Reports
World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples - Laos : Lao Sung July 2018 \| Publisher: Minority Rights Group International \| Document type: Country Reports
World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples - Laos July 2018 \| Publisher: Minority Rights Group International \| Document type: Country Profiles
2018 Trafficking in Persons Report - Laos 28 June 2018 \| Publisher: United States Department of State \| Document type: Annual Reports
Freedom in the World 2018 - Laos 28 May 2018 \| Publisher: Freedom House \| Document type: Annual Reports
Lao government launches new push against corruption 7 May 2018 \| Publisher: Radio Free Asia \| Document type: Country News
Workers in Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia call for better pay, benefits 1 May 2018 \| Publisher: Radio Free Asia \| Document type: Country News

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