Lao People's Democratic Republic

• Amnesty International 22
• Child Soldiers International 3
• Committee to Protect Journalists 4
• Freedom House 34
• Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) 1
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 2
• International Federation for Human Rights 2
• International Trade Union Confederation 6
• Minority Rights Group International 7
• Reporters Without Borders 9
• UN Development Programme 1
• United States Commission on International Religious Freedom 12
• United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants 2
• United States Department of State 57

• Abduction 2
• Access to procedures 1
• Airports 1
• Animist 9
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 22
• Armed forces / Military 1
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 4
• Assemblies of God 5
• Asylum-seekers 7
• Baha'i 11
• Baptist 5
• Border crossers 1
• Buddhist 12
• Catholic 11
• Child labour 3
• Child prostitution 2
• Child soldiers 3
• Children's rights 19
• Children-at-risk 13
• Christian 12
• Civil and political rights 2
• Climate change (including environmental migrants) 1
• Conflict situation 1
• Confucianist 7
• Copts 1
• Corruption 8
• Criminal justice 7
• Death in custody 1
• Death penalty 4
• Democracy 1
• Deportation / Forcible return 7
• Disabled persons 4
• Disappeared persons 20
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 23
• Domestic violence 1
• Drug trafficking 2
• Economic, social and cultural rights 14
• Effective protection 1
• Effective remedy 1
• Elections 9
• Equality before the law 2
• Evangelical 4
• Expulsion 2
• Extrajudicial executions 15
• Extreme poverty 1
• Falun Gong 1
• Forced labour 21
• Forced marriage 1
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 17
• Freedom of assembly and association 31
• Freedom of conscience 4
• Freedom of expression 51
• Freedom of information 18
• Freedom of movement 17
• Freedom of religion 55
• Freedom of speech 18
• Gender discrimination 17
• Gender-based persecution 1
• Good governance 2
• HIV and AIDS 3
• Hmong 43
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 6
• Human rights activists 3
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 22
• Human rights monitors 4
• Humanitarian assistance 1
• Illegal entry 1
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 1
• Immigration Detention 3
• Impunity 1
• Independence of judiciary 6
• Indigenous persons 3
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 3
• International protection 2
• Involuntary repatriation 1
• Jehovah's Witness 5
• Karen 2
• Lao Theung 1
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 3
• Location of camps 1
• Lutheran 5
• Mental health 1
• Methodist 7
• Migrants 3
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 2
• Minorities 20
• Minority rights 2
• Mormon 5
• Muslim 11
• Pentecostal 1
• Persecution based on nationality 1
• Persecution based on political opinion 8
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 3
• Police 8
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 1
• Prison or detention conditions 13
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 5
• Protestant 11
• Public health 2
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 5
• Refoulement 1
• Refugee camps 2
• Refugee identity documents 2
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 1
• Refugees 12
• Rejected asylum-seekers 1
• Religious discrimination 27
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 16
• Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 1
• Resettlement 3
• Returnees 1
• Right to development 1
• Right to education 2
• Right to employment 7
• Right to food 3
• Right to self-determination 3
• Rohingya (Arakanese) 2
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 4
• SGBV 14
• Security forces 5
• Seventh Day Adventist 8
• Shan 2
• Shia 4
• Smuggling of persons 2
• Social group discrimination 13
• Sunni 6
• Taoist 5
• Terrorism 10
• Torture 1
• Trafficking in persons 33
• Uighur 1
• Visas 1
• Women's rights 20
• Women-at-risk 13
• Work permits 1

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• AlertNet - Laos
• Amnesty International - Laos
• Cultural Orientation Resource (COR) Center - Publications: Culture Profiles
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Lao People's Dem 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 PDR
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Lao People's Democratic Republic