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Voluntarism and Regional Integration: ASEANs 20 Years of Cooperation on Human Trafficking
What does ASEANs twenty-year cooperation on human trafficking say about regional integration? This paper assesses ASEANs capacity to solve the regions long-lasting human traffic...
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Combatting Human Trafficking in East Asia: Mind the Gaps
Despite the ratification of global and regional anti-trafficking frameworks and enactment of relevant national laws, human trafficking remains an endemic security problem in Eas...
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National Drug Control Master Plan 2009-2013
The National Drug Control Master Plan addresses the recent rise and proliferation of illicit drug production, trafficking, abuse as well as related criminal activity in the Lao ...
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Community’s Voices on the Road Link: the two-lane road with one-way benefit
To broaden our understanding and get updated information on the project’s development, the Mekong Butterfly had visited and discussed with communities along the Road Link projec...
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Human rights and Cambodia's prisons: Health in prisons 2002 & 2003
Since 1997, LICADHO has issued reports on human rights and Cambodian prisons,highlighting the issues of most serious concern and recommending avenues of change. As an independen...
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‘REBEL’ FARMERS AND ‘UNRULY’ EMPLOYEES: THE SITUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS PROMOTING CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY IN EAST ASIA
This report does not contain a detailed legal analysis of the legislative frameworks governing foreign direct investment, corporate social responsibility, or land concessions in...
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ASEAN Baseline Study on CSR and HR revise
This Baseline Study on CSR and human rights is part of the Five Years Work Plan of the AICHR,1 which would allow the Commission a better understanding on the emerging human righ...
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WORKSHOP ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS OBLIGATIONS RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE
The AICHR Workshop on the Implementation of Human Rights Obligations Relating to the Environment and Climate Change was organised by the Representative of Myanmar to the AICHR w...
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Civil Society Organizations and ASEAN Forums
At the present, there are at least two types of venues for CSO engagement with ASEAN. There are forums established by ASEAN bodies where CSOs can attend and participate in those...
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Mekong Youth Assembly and International Rivers Submission to John Knox, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment
The Mekong Youth Assembly and International Rivers are pleased to provide this submission to John Knox, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment...
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Permanent mission of Lao PDR to the United Nations office and other International Organizations Geneva
Permanent mission of Lao PDR to the United Nations office and other International Organizations Geneva presents its compliments to the office of the High Commissioner to Human R...
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PR | UN Envoys Report Concern over Don Sahong Dam Impacts to Human Rights Council
he United Nations Special Procedures have raised serious concerns over the human rights impacts of the controversial Don Sahong Dam under construction on the Mekong River in Lao...
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A Matter of Rights in the Future of the Mekong
The United Nations Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council recently published the outcome of communications on the human rights impacts of the Don Sahong Dam. The Don Sah...
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Special procedures of communications
Special procedures mechanisms can intervene directly with Governments on allegations of violations of human rights that come within their mandates by means of letters which incl...
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United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner
The special procedures of the Human Rights Council are independent human rights experts with mandates to report and advise on human rights from a thematic or country-specific pe...
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Protect human rights in trans-boundary investments - the message from the 2018 SEA conference on Human Rights and Business
Delegates at the 8th Southeast Asian regional conference on Human Rights and Business in Chiang Khong, Thailand have released the Mekong Statement, committing ourselves to stren...
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Collateral Damage: Land Loss and Abuses in Cambodia's Microfinance Sector
More than 2 million Cambodians currently have a loan with a microfinance institution, or MFI. Levels of debt have skyrocketed in recent years, leading to a number of human right...
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Final report of the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights on Laos
This is the final report of the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, on his visit to the Lao People's Democratic Republic. The report call...
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Statement by Professor Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights on his visit to Lao PDR, 18-28 March 2019
On paper, the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic has made great progress in poverty reduction over recent decades. And after more than twenty years of striving to graduate from lea...
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Freedom of Expression in Cambodia: The Illusion of Democracy
This report is a collection of stories about the current state of freedom of expression in Cambodia. The people in these stories hail from every corner of Cambodia, and come fro...