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August 11, 2019

Australia: Press Laos to Protect Rights

The Australian government should press the Lao government to take serious steps to remedy its poor human rights record at the 6th Australia-Laos human rights dialogue on August 12, 2019, in Canberra, Human Rights Watch said today.

Asia

August 11, 2019 News Release

Australia: Press Laos to Protect Rights
Asia

January 22, 2019 News Release

Laos: Investigate Disappearance of 3 Thai Dissidents
Free Speech

December 15, 2017 News Release

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

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Joint Letter to the Lao Government Re: Decree on Associations
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Australia – Laos Human Rights Dialogue
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Laos: No Progress on Rights
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

Daily Brief

August 22, 2019

Trump's indefinite detention of children; mine workers at serious risk after deregulation in Georgia; Kazakhstan repressing activist drawing attention to China's abuses; pollution and the right to safe drinking water in the US; and the media and religious intolerance in Indonesia.