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Can we consider economic and financial ruptures, in addition to (or as an outcome of) nature-society ruptures? Along with a number of other countries who have embarked upon infrastructure and resource mega-projects under China’s Belt & Road Initiative, the Southeast Asian country of Laos (...)
Ethnic minority families can’t afford school and make kids toil in fields or watch over younger siblings.
Child labor remains widespread in Laos, particularly in ethnic minority communities in rural areas where minors forego schooling to perform agricultural work or stay at home taking care (...)
Eight years ago, Sombath Somphone, a respected and well-known civil society leader, was abducted in full public view on a busy street in Vientiane, Lao PDR. To this day, there has been no serious, credible investigation by the Lao government into his disappearance.
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15 December 2019: On the seventh anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Lao civil society leader Sombath Somphone, we, the undersigned organizations, urge the Lao and Thai governments to investigate enforced disappearances, and demand Vientiane finally reveal Sombath’s whereabouts and (...)
The issue of property rights looms large as part of various issues that the Southeast Asian country and its people are contending with.
When, on July 23 last year, an auxiliary dam of the Xe Pian-Xe Namnoy hydropower complex in southern Laos collapsed, the torrent unleashed rolled through (...)
14 December 2018: On the eve of the sixth anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Lao civil society leader Sombath Somphone, we, the undersigned organizations, reiterate our calls for the Lao government to conduct an independent, impartial and effective investigation to reveal his fate (...)
Influential Facebook users, pejoratively referred to as net idols, are facing retribution for their online posts.
Vientiane, Laos - Inside a packed lecture hall at the American Centre in the capital Vientiane, 60 National University of Laos students sit surrounded by framed posters featuring (...)
Consultation for the Pak Lay dam in Xayaburi province has begun, despite PM calling off all work after disaster
Work on two of the biggest dams on the Mekong River in Laos is still going ahead, despite a promise by the government to halt and review all new projects after a deadly dam (...)
On the fifth anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Lao civil society leader Sombath Somphone, we, the undersigned organizations, express outrage at the Lao government’s failure to independently, impartially, effectively, and transparently investigate Sombath’s disappearance, reveal his (...)
FIDH - International Federation for Human Rights
and its member organization for Laos
Lao Movement for Human Rights (LMHR)
Joint press release
Laos: New Decree on Associations is the last nail in the coffin for civil society
Paris, 21 November 2017: International donors must urge the (...)
Dear Friends,
Today is Sombath Somphone’s birthday. Ng Shuimeng, his wife, wrote a letter posted on below
Please share widely by email and social media.
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My dearest Sombath,
Today, February 17, is your birthday. If you have not been disappeared, we should be celebrating your (...)
A SIA‐E UROPE P EOPLE’S F ORUM
15th December 2015
Lao People’s Democratic Republic – Sombath Somphone’s enforced disappearance and demands for his safe return
The Asia Europe People’s Forum International Organizing Committee remains deeply concerned about the safety and wellbeing of Mr. (...)
From 1964 to 1973, the US dropped two million tons of bombs on Laos. The horrendous effects are still being felt.
In April 2012, Nengyong Yang, a farmer in Laos, was cutting a tree in his field, preparing to plant corn. As Nengyong was hacking away, a bomb lodged in the trunk of the tree (...)
On the second anniversary of the enforced disappearance of prominent Lao civil society leader Sombath Somphone, we, the undersigned regional and international organizations, firmly condemn the Lao government’s ongoing refusal to provide any information regarding Sombath’s fate or whereabouts. (...)
Bangkok, 11 December 2014 – Ng Shui-Meng, the wife of prominent Lao civil society member Sombath Somphone, who was abducted two years ago in what is widely considered a case of enforced disappearance, spoke at a press conference this morning at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand. She (...)
Statement: Sombath Initiative Created
Bangkok, 11 December 2014 — While driving home on the evening of December 15th 2012, Sombath Somphone was stopped by traffic police at a police post in Vientiane and taken away by persons in a pickup truck while the police watched.
While Lao government (...)
Lao PDR: properly investigate Sombath’s “disappearance”, ICJ report says
December 11, 2014
Two years after prominent Laotian activist Sombath Somphone was last seen at a police checkpoint, the Laotian government must do more to investigate his suspected enforced disappearance, said the ICJ (...)
Keynote Speech by Shui Meng Ng at the 10th Asia-Europe People’s Forum, Milan, Italy, 10-12 October 2014, “Towards a Just and Inclusive Asia and Europe-Building States of Citizens for Citizens”.
Shui Meng Ng at the 10th Asia-Europe People’s Forum.
Two years ago, at the 9th AEPF, my husband, (...)
Media Release from ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR)
For immediate release, Tuesday 23 September, 2014
For follow-up information or interview requests please contact: info aseanmp.org
APHR: Lao government’s deceptive game on Sombath investigation must end BANGKOK — The (...)
We remain deeply concerned about the safety and wellbeing of Mr. Sombath Somphone.
It is now one year since his enforced disappearance.
Sombath is one of the most respected and influential voices for sustainable people-centred and just economic and social development in Laos. He is the (...)
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