Laos: Amid UN human rights review, exiled activist attacked, and repression of Hmong community and press highlighted Published at 12.08.2025 Country Laos Category Latest Developments Tags: attack on HRD minority groups transnational repression Read more
Laos: UN raises concerns on civic space restrictions for ethnic cultural groups and women activists Published at 03.03.2025 Country Laos Category Latest Developments Tags: women surveillance minority groups bureaucratic restriction Read more
Laos: Increased surveillance around ASEAN meeting, Myanmar activists deported and no progress around disappearances Published at 26.09.2024 Country Laos Category Latest Developments Tags: surveillance minority groups transnational repression Read more
Laos: Social media critic arrested for exposing bribery while land rights protesters detained Published at 07.05.2024 Country Laos Category Latest Developments Tags: protest disruption minority groups harassment protestor(s) detained land rights Read more
Laos: UN raises concerns about summary executions, enforced disappearance and deportation of activists Published at 23.01.2024 Country Laos Category Latest Developments Tags: religious groups minority groups hrd enforced disappearance surveillance Read more
Laos: Human rights defender shot at while activists in exile face arrest and attacks Published at 18.09.2023 Country Laos Category Latest Developments Tags: youth HRD detained attack on HRD Read more
Laos: Arrests for protest against potash mine while human rights defenders remain in jail Published at 02.05.2023 Country Laos Category Latest Developments Tags: religious groups protest enforced disappearance protestor(s) detained environmental rights land rights Read more
Calls for accountability for disappeared activist Sombath Somphone, release of political prisoners as repression of civic space persists in Laos Published at 20.12.2022 Country Laos Category Latest Developments Tags: enforced disappearance censorship land rights harassment intimidation Read more
‘Closed’ civic space shows Laos not taking annual human rights dialogues seriously Published at 18.07.2022 Country Laos Category Latest Developments Tags: enforced disappearance protest disruption religious groups minority groups censorship protestor(s) detained land rights Read more
Political dissident from Laos finds refuge as ethnic Hmong indigenous people remain at risk Published at 18.03.2022 Country Laos Category Latest Developments Tags: HRD detained indigenous groups minority groups Read more
Reprisals against Hmong, religious freedom violations and search for Sombath continues Published at 01.11.2021 Country Laos Category Latest Developments Tags: enforced disappearance indigenous groups refugees and migrants religious groups minority groups protest Read more
Arbitrary detention of Lao women activist, increased online surveillance, persecution of minorities Published at 06.08.2021 Country Laos Category Latest Developments Tags: censorship women religious groups minority groups Read more
