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This report by ICJ outlines key recommendations of why the Government of Myanmar should impose a moratorium on the development of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) until it can...

This report documents Chevron’s ongo-ing role in financing the military regime in Burma (Myanmar) and profiting from human rights abuses on the Yadana nat-ural gas...

The final report of the Advisory Commission chaired by Kofi Annan puts forward recommendations to surmount the political, socio-economic and humanitarian challenges that...

The Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Transformation Index (BTI) analyzes and evaluates the quality of democracy, a market economy and political management in 129 developing and transition...

Myanmar’s jade business may be the biggest natural resource heist in modern history. The sums of money involved are almost incomprehensibly high and the levels of accountability...

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင်ယုံကြည်ချက်ကြောင့်အကျဉ်းကျခံနေရသူအနည်းဆုံး (၉၁)ဦးရှိသည်ဟု လွတ်ငြိမ်းချမ်းသာခွင့် အဖွဲ့မှယုံကြည်သည်။ ဤအစီရင်ခံစာသည် နိုင်ငံရေးအခြေအနေကို...

Backgrounder on Myanmar by Beina Xu and Eleanor Alberthttps://web.archive.org/backgrounder/understanding-myanmar

The Law on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Children defines principles, rules and measures relating to the administration, monitoring and inspection of the...

The report provides information on the ranking of Laos and other countries on the index, as well as factors that explain for the rank.

The report and page provide information on the ranking of Laos on the index, as well as factors that explain for the rank.

This report, published by the U.S. State Department, covers internationally recognized civil, individual, political and worker rights in Lao PDR specifically.

This report looks at the humanitarian transition in Laos, even though it is not considered to be a priority country. It observes the humanitarian aid system and its related...

The national Violence against Children Survey – the first of its kind in Lao PDR – was implemented by the Lao Statistics Bureau and the National Commission for Mothers and...

The report provides a human trafficking profile in Laos, as well as recommendations and the state of prosecution, protection, and prevention in the country.

The report covers the current human trafficking situation in Laos, as well as recommendations and the state of prosecution, protection, and prevention in the country.

Given the widespread smallholder impulse to engage in commodity booms in Southeast Asia and the potential for this engagement to offer a more inclusive development pathway than...

This comment piece is responding to the statement by Professor Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights on his visit to Lao PDR, 18-28 March 2019

There is growing recognition globally and also in Lao PDR that VAW is a serious public health problem and a violation of women's human rights. Yet in Lao PDR, VAW is culturally...

The publication provides information on national plans of action and policies on the protection of children. It also discusses prevention and protection approaches, specifically...

This study on the commercial sexual exploitation of children in Lao PDR was commissioned through a joint collaboration between the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare, UNICEF...