558 datasets found

The State of the Worlds Midwifery (SoWMy) 2014: A Universal Pathway. A Womans Right to Health takes its inspiration from the United Nations Secretary-Generals Every Woman Every ...

Laos has followed its Chinese neighbor in creating the Special Economic Zones (SEZs) as part of the new economic engine that allows distinctive economic policies and flexible go...

New available data suggests that the business environment in Lao Peoples Democratic Republic (PDR) is not improving, and may be deteriorating. The main constraints to doing busi...

The ASEAN Key Figures 2018 is the inaugural issue of a new publication by the Statistics Division (ASEAN stats) of the ASEAN Secretariat. The publication provides rea...

This report provides an overview of adolescents and youth in Lao PDR in areas like education, health, employment, and protection.

The report is organized into four key themes, i.e. capacity building and setting standards; promoting evidence-based programming and policy making; coordination, collaboration, ...

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 ...

This Human Trafficking Snapshot was developed to provide background for practitioners who want to conduct counter trafficking activities in Lao Peoples Democratic Republic (Lao ...

This study, which profiles the phenomena of child trafficking, provides insight into the underlying factors and causes of trafficking. It identifies trafficking routes and metho...

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 ...

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...

In Part I of this Article, Renshaw explains some of the current theories about how and why states come to adopt human rights norms and then translates these norms into laws and ...

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...

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 ...

An explanation on poverty within Laos, its origins and perpetuating factors, and how it breaks down along demographic lines.

A brief overview of the break down of ethnic and language groups in Laos.

An analysis of attempts to promote and preserve minority cultural legacies within the Lao PDR.

An explainer on ethnic groups in Laos and their languages, traditional regions, and cultures.

Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development will require countries to adapt global targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and incorporate these into na...