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Lao People's Democratic Republic


List of Documents

The list of documents below includes reports and articles that the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre has included in the profile as well as links to relevant reports and articles published since the last update of this Internal Displacement Profile.

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"Hmong Returnees: Re-Building Lives in Laos", Government of the United States of America, 25 May 2012
Annual Repprt 2012: Laos, Amnesty International (AI), 24 May 2012
"Laos: Communal land titles could save more than forests", Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), 16 April 2012
"EU delegates visit repatriated Hmong community", Vientiane Times, 11 March 2012
"Situation of minorities remains dire as Laos goes before the UN Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination", International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) & Mouvement Lao pour les Droits de l'Homme (MLDH), 27 February 2012
"U.S. Provides Medical Supplies to Hmong Returnee Villages", Government of the United States of America, 17 January 2012
"Lao Officials: Give Up Your Faith or Face Eviction", Compass Direct News, 23 December 2011
"Rights group slams Thailand's Lao refugee return", Australia Network News, 22 December 2011
"Hmong 'killed' in forced return to Laos", The Nation (Thailand), 4 October 2011
"Villagers brace for relocation as dam project moves forward", Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), 29 July 2011
"Vietnam, Laos: Attack Helicopters Unleashed Death on Hmong", Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA), 22 May 2011
2010 Human Rights Report: Laos, U.S. Department of State (U.S. DOS), 8 April 2011
"Resettled Hmong Still Restricted", Radio Free Asia (RFA), 7 March 2011
2010 Report on International Religious Freedom - Laos, U.S. Department of State (U.S. DOS), 17 November 2010
"Officials to Expel More Christian Families from Village", Compass Direct News, 9 November 2010
"Hmong returnees becoming self-reliant", Vientiane Times, 2 October 2010
Universal Periodic Review of Laos: a disappointing result, International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) & Mouvement Lao pour les Droits de l'Homme (MLDH), 23 September 2010
"Reason for concern – but not alarm over repatriated Hmong", Twin Cities Daily Planet, 10 August 2010
"Hmong returnees assure US envoy of wellbeing", Vientiane Times, 16 July 2010
Mission to Laos, U.S. Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, 25 June 2010
Northern Laos: EFSA Follow-up Rapid Assessment, World Food Programme (WFP), 13 May 2010
Legacies of War: Unexploded Ordnance in Laos, U.S. Department of State (U.S. DOS), 22 April 2010
"Envoy raises fears for Hmong in Laos", Sydney Morning Herald (SMH), 5 April 2010
"Rare glimpse of Hmong in Laos fails to quell concerns", Agence France-Presse (AFP), 28 March 2010
"Laos allows Western diplomats into Hmong village", Agence France-Presse (AFP), 27 March 2010
"Laos asked to grant access to Hmong", Bangkok Post, 27 March 2010
"Laos' Nam Theun 2 Dam Starts Illegal Operation", The Huffington Post, 25 March 2010
"Activists call for Laos dam to suspend operations", Agence France-Presse (AFP), 23 March 2010
2009 Human Rights Report: Laos, U.S. Department of State (U.S. DOS), 11 March 2010
Written statement submitted by the Transnational Radical Party (TRP), Transnational Radical Party (TRP), 10 March 2010
"Laos Extracts Forced Confessions To Help Silence Hmong Refugees", Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA), 26 February 2010
"LAOS: Small towns buckling under strain of migration", Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), 18 February 2010
"The secret army still fighting Vietnam war", The Independent, 17 February 2010
"Government Sponsored Cruelty Continues in Communist Laos", Christian Aid Mission, 9 February 2010
"Lao Officials Force Christians from Worship at Gunpoint", Compass Direct News, 8 February 2010
"Laos 'moving toward' Hmong access: US diplomat", Agence France-Presse (AFP), 6 February 2010
"Lack of Transparency for Returnees", Radio Free Asia (RFA), 3 February 2010
National Survey of UXO Victims and Accidents - Phase 1, Lao UXO National Regulatory Authority (NRA), 2 February 2010
"Rights groups push Laos on access to returned Hmong", Agence France-Presse (AFP), February 2010
"Vietnam VPA, LPA Troops Attack Hmong Christians, Villagers in Laos", Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA), 26 January 2010
"Lao govt reiterates policy for Hmong returnees", Vientiane Times, 19 January 2010
"Deported Hmong held by Lao army in squalid camp", Sydney Morning Herald (SMH), 13 January 2010
"Laos: Repatriated Hmongs will Receive Good Care", Voice of America (VOA), 6 January 2010
"Press statement on returning Lao Hmong", Vientiane Times, 5 January 2010
Laos: Background and U.S. Relations, Congressional Research Service (CRS), 4 January 2010
"Remaining Lao Hmong return home", Vientiane Times, 31 December 2009
"Do Hmong deported by Thailand face danger in Laos?", The Christian Science Monitor, 29 December 2009
"Hmong Forced Back to Laos", Radio Free Asia (RFA), 28 December 2009
"UN High Commissioner for Refugees expresses dismay at forced return of Lao Hmong by Thailand", United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 28 December 2009
Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP): Lao People's Democratic Republic Flash Appeal 2009 (Revision), UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA), 18 December 2009
"Allure of scrap metal hard to resist in Laos", Reuters AlertNet, 30 November 2009
"Scrap metal income courts UXO danger", Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), 12 November 2009
Background Note: Laos, U.S. Department of State (U.S. DOS), 30 October 2009
"U.S. Drops Case Against Exiled Hmong Leader", New York Times (NYT), 18 September 2009
"Jungle orphans", New Internationalist, September 2009
"Laos: Military Attacks Lao Hmong Civilians", Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA), 3 August 2009
Legacies of War, in Critical Asian Studies, 41:2, 281-306, Khamvongsa, Channapha & Russel, Elaine, June 2009
"Thailand 'gets tough' with Hmong", BBC News, 22 May 2009
"Medics close Hmong refugee camp", BBC News, 21 May 2009
CERD letter to LPDR government requesting information on status of Hmong IDPs and returnees, Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), 13 March 2009
"Hmong Civilians Suffer Attacks, Atrocities in Laos", Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA), 15 January 2009
"Internal resettlement in Laos", in Critical Asian Studies, 41.4, 605-620, Holly High, Ian G. Baird, Keith Barney, Peter Vandergeest and Bruce Shoemaker, 2009
"Finding alternatives to resettlement", Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), 17 December 2008
"The Lost Children of Laos", OhmyNews International, 16 October 2008
"Hmong: Lao Military Attacks Phou Bia Mountain Area", Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA), 19 September 2008
"A deadly harvest of cluster bombs in Laos", Times Online, 26 April 2008
"Laos Arrests Christian Pastors: Crackdown Expands", Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA), 19 April 2008
"Laos 'lost tribe' in plea for help", Al-Jazeera, 14 March 2008
Summary of cases transmitted to Governments and replies received, UN independent expert on minority issues, 6 March 2008
"Thailand: Stop Forced Returns to Laos", Human Rights Watch (HRW), 5 March 2008
"Lao Troops Told 'Shoot to Kill' Hmong Rebels", Radio Free Asia (RFA), 8 February 2008
"Old U.S. Allies, Still Hiding in Laos", New York Times (NYT), 17 December 2007
"Laos 'coup plot' uncovered in US", BBC News, 5 June 2007
"Laos: Destitute jungle-dwellers living on run from military", Amnesty International (AI), 23 March 2007
Written statement submitted by the Society for Threatened Peoples, Society for Threatened Peoples, 6 March 2007
"Laos: Still a Secret War", World Press, 19 January 2007
"Hmong group surrenders in Laos", BBC News, 13 December 2006
Lao PDR Poverty Assessment Report, World Bank (WB), September 2006
"Laos Denies Attacks on Hmongs", Voice of America (VOA), September 2006
"Laos: Massacre of unarmed Hmong women and children", Amnesty International (AI), 4 May 2006
UXO Risk Education Needs Assessment - Lao PDR, Mines Advisory Group (MAG), 27 April 2006
Written statement submitted by the Society for Threatened Peoples, Society for Threatened Peoples, 7 March 2006
Written statement submitted by the Transnational Radical Party (TRP), Transnational Radical Party (TRP), 3 March 2006
A Study of Scrap Metal Collection in Lao PDR, Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD), September 2005
Situation of the ethnic and religious minorities in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) & Mouvement Lao pour les Droits de l'Homme (MLDH), 2 January 2005
"Laos: Military atrocities against Hmong children are war crimes", Amnesty International (AI), 13 September 2004
"Genocide Victims Accused of Genocide", Burke, Al, 16 January 2004
Prevention of racial discrimination, including early warning measures and urgent action procedures, Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), 10 December 2003
"Laos: Use of starvation as a weapon of war against civilians", Amnesty International (AI), 2 October 2003
"Laos' forgotten Hmong", BBC News, 2 July 2003
"Welcome to the Jungle", TIME Magazine, 23 April 2003
"Fresh bus attack in Laos ", BBC News, 21 April 2003
Refugee Reintegration in Rural Areas: Land Distribution in Ban Pha Thao, Lao PDR, Inter-University Committee on International Migration, 19 April 2003
Clusters of Death, Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) , November 2000
Laos: A Country Study, Library of Congress - Federal Research Division (LoC-FRD), 1994
Beyond Borders: Refugees, Migrants And Human Rights In The Post-Cold War Era, Ferris, Elisabeth, 1993