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December 15, 2017

Laos: 5 Years Since Civil Society Leader’s ‘Disappearance’

The government of Laos should immediately disclose the fate or whereabouts of the prominent civil society leader Sombath Somphone, who was forcibly disappeared in the capital, Vientiane, in December 2012.

Free Speech

December 15, 2017 News Release

Laos: 5 Years Since Civil Society Leader’s ‘Disappearance’
Free Speech

August 1, 2017 News Release

Laos/Thailand: Investigate Abduction of Exiled Red Shirt Activist
Free Speech

July 17, 2017 News Release

Laos: No Progress on Rights

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October 11, 2012 Video

Laos: Inside a Drug Detention Center

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July 24, 2012

Torture in the Name of Treatment

Human Rights Abuses in Vietnam, China, Cambodia, and Lao PDR
October 11, 2011

Somsanga’s Secrets

Arbitrary Detention, Physical Abuse, and Suicide inside a Lao Drug Detention Center

News

December 17, 2017 Letter

Joint Letter to the Lao Government Re: Decree on Associations
July 17, 2017 Statement

Australia – Laos Human Rights Dialogue
December 15, 2016 Statement

Joint Statement on Sombath Somphone
December 15, 2016 News Release

Laos: Come Clean on Activist’s ‘Disappearance’
July 15, 2016 News Release

Laos: Premier Should Account for 'Disappeared' Activist
February 10, 2016 News Release

US/ASEAN: Rights Should Top Sunnylands Agenda
November 12, 2015 Letter

Open letter to Participants of the 2015 Lao Donor Round Table Meeting
November 5, 2015 UPR

Human Rights Watch Concerns on Laos
June 25, 2015 UPR

UN Human Rights Council: Adoption of the outcome of the Universal Periodic Review of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic
May 27, 2015 News Release

Southeast Asia: Put Rights at Center of Boat People Summit
March 12, 2015 Commentary

Australia-Laos rights dialogue: More than just rhetoric needed

Shaivalini Parmar

Published In: Lowy Interpreter
March 2, 2015 Statement

Australia-Laos Human Rights Dialogue

Daily Brief

December 7, 2018

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