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	Laos
		Human rights groups criticized the continued incarceration of the two citizens, on the grounds that they were only paid porters for the journalists and were not guilty of the charges under which they were convicted.
		Although the intent of the decree is to clarify the rights and responsibilities of religious groups, many minority religious leaders complained that the decree was too restrictive in practice.
		Laos was primarily a country of origin for trafficking in persons and to a lesser extent, a country of transit.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27777.htm (9821 words)

	Laos
		According to Lao press reports, six of the attackers were killed, and a seventh subsequently died in Thailand of wounds received in the attack.
		Several international human rights groups continued their longstanding requests to the Government to move two political prisoners to a prison with better conditions, including more modern medical facilities (see Section 1.e.).
		Approximately half the population is ethnic Lao, also called "lowland Lao." Most of the remainder is a mixture of diverse upland hill tribes whose members, if born in the country, are citizens.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18251.htm (8727 words)

	Human Rights News & Actions: Laos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Human Rights (LMHR) of the death of Khamphouvieng Sisa-At, one of the
		respect of human rights and democratic reforms in Laos.
		defenders in Laos, in conformity with the UN Declaration on Humans
	www.derechos.org /news/archives/cat_laos.html (579 words)

	CESNUR - U.S. Dpt of State, 1999 Report on International Religious Freedom
		U.S. Mission efforts inevitably are centered on human rights officers, as well as consular officers, who serve as the eyes and ears of the mission in its search for information, and its voice in the advocacy of religious freedom.
		The Embassy maintains formal contacts with the Office of Human Rights at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and conducts regular discussions with governors, Members of Parliament, local religious leaders, academics, businessmen, and citizens outside of the capital area and from a lower-income background.
		Embassy representatives in Laos discussed cases of religious persecution with the Human Rights Unit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and established an ongoing dialog with the Department of Religious Affairs in the Lao National Front and with other high-ranking officials in the National Front.
	www.cesnur.org /testi/irf/us99_exec.htm (9674 words)

	Bhutan Human Rights
		In a new 22-page briefing paper, Human Rights Watch urged Bhutan and Nepal to implement a screening and repatriation process that protects the human rights of more than one hundred thousand refugees of Nepalese ethnicity who were arbitrarily stripped of their citizenship and forced to flee Bhutan in the early 1990s.
		Human Rights Watch is concerned that some categories of refugees will not be allowed to return to their regions of origin and will confront other forms of discrimination.
		Human Rights Watch also urged Bhutan, which is currently drafting a new constitution, to reform its citizenship laws.
	www.asiarecipe.com /bhuhumanrights.html (649 words)

	Hmong-Lao Human Rights Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dr. Vang Pobzeb was one of the co-founders of the Lao Human Rights Council, Inc., and served as its president from 1987 to 1992, and as Executive Director of the Council since 1992.
		The Lao Human Rights Council, Inc. is a nonprofit organization.
		Lao Human Rights Council documents can also be reached from our site located at http://home.earthlink.net/~laohumrights
	www.laohumrights.org /home.html (344 words)

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		He was not the sort of human rights champion who sneaks into totalitarian countries and emerges with damning videotape, nor did he devote much time to rhetoric or arcane points of international law and doctrine.
		He understood that human rights would always compete with commerce and security and other national interests in the formulation of foreign policy; he just wanted the voices of the oppressed not to be drowned out altogether.
		Human rights groups say such forced conscription is routine in military-ruled Myanmar and as many as 70,000 soldiers in the army are under the age of 18.
	www.burmanet.org /bnn_archives/2003/20030506.txt (16359 words)

	U.S. Releases 2004 International Religious Freedom Report
		Beginning with the 1948 adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and continuing with the nearly global ratification of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the nations of the world have affirmed the principle that governments have a fundamental responsibility to protect freedom of religion.
		Human rights groups report that there have been incidents in which persons from minority groups, especially Hindus and Christians, have been abducted and forcibly converted.
		Human rights groups and religious minority groups have criticized the Procurator General for encouraging legal action against some minority religions and for giving an imprimatur of authority to materials that are biased against Muslims, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, and others.
	usinfo.state.gov /xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2004&m=September&x=200409151515002KCeeL0.7244074&t=livefeeds/wf-latest.html (11220 words)

	Directory - Society: Issues: Children, Youth and Family: Child Poverty
		Human Rights Watch - Children's Rights Division · cached · Comprehensive information and reports on human rights violations against children around the world.
		Abandoned to the State · An international report by the Human Rights Watch on the status of children in Russian orphanages.
		Jubilee Campaign · cached · A UK human rights group lobbying to protect children's rights and the persecuted church with a very extensive links page on human rights.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=236695 (1190 words)

	2000 Annual Report for International Religious Freedom: Executive Summary
		Increasingly, the central government was willing to engage in human rights dialogue with other countries on the basis of international standards and agreements.
		While serious impediments to religious freedom remain in Laos, their release constitutes a significant improvement and demonstrates a willingness on the part of the central Government to intervene with local and provincial authorities when the latter abridge the religious liberties of minorities.
		Embassy officers have kept in close touch with human rights and religious groups to remain attuned to their concerns about the proposed law.
	www.cesnur.org /testi/irf2000/exec.html (14660 words)

	Human rights find place in Asean
		For Asean, the human rights issue was so sensitive it was rarely discussed, and one of Asean's cardinal principles was that members not meddle in the "internal affairs" of other members.
		In the 1993 meeting in Singapore, Asean foreign ministers stressed the "importance of strengthening international co-operation on all aspects of human rights" and "agreed that Asean should also consider the establishment of an appropriate regional mechanism on human rights".
		In 1997, they dropped their insistence that national human rights commissions be formed in each Asean country before a regional body could be established.
	www.singapore-window.org /sw00/000806sc.htm (614 words)

	FVA Attends Human Rights Conference with the Foreign Ministry of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Foreign Ministry of Canada invited the Free Vietnam Alliance to attend a human rights conference on Feb. 19 and 20 in the capital city of Ottawa.
		Topics included civil and political rights; the right to development; economic, social and cultural rights; religious intolerance; racism; effect of illicit dumping of toxic wastes; and impunity.
		The delegation recommended the Canadian government to raise these human rights concerns at the coming UN meeting, and urge nations to use their diplomatic and trade pressures with Hanoi for the release of political prisoners, the respect of basic human rights and the end to regime's control over mass media.
	www.fva.org /0398/news2.htm (561 words)

	Human Rights Watch World Report 2001: Asia
		In Laos, armed insurgency from ethnic Hmong in the highlands and ethnic Lao rebels based in Thailand and Laos increased during the year, and in June, the government initiated a national security alert after a series of unclaimed bomb blasts were attributed to those Lao insurgents.
		Fundamental rights to freedom of association, expression, and assembly were tightly restricted in North Korea, Burma, Vietnam, and Afghanistan.
		Despite international pressure to secure the right to return for approximately 100,000 Bhutanese refugees living in camps in Nepal since late 1990 and 1991, Bhutan continued to resist proposals for their repatriation.
	hrw.org /wr2k1/asia/index.html (2302 words)

	Human Rights Watch News Releases, Asia
		Rededication to defending the human rights cause and the important gains that have been made.
		The international human rights organisation also called on the Burmese government to publicly guarantee that the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and all other members of her party, the National League for Democracy, can openly engage in political activity with no restrictions on their freedom of association, speech, assembly or movement.
		In letters to Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) foreign ministers yesterday, Human Rights Watch called on ASEAN governments to use their influence to persuade Burma's State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) to end the current standoff with Aung San Suu Kyi.
	www.humanrightswatch.org /doc/?t=asia_news_rss&c=asean (263 words)

	PolitInfo US: Human Rights in Laos 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Laos is an extremely poor country with an estimated population of 5.5 million.
		According to confirmed reports, those detained without trial at year's end for their religious activities included one person in Phongsaly and one person in Houaphanh; one person detained in Savannakhet was released in December.
		In 2000 it published a partial compilation of international conventions on human rights in Lao.
	us.politinfo.com /Information/Human_Rights/country_report_062.html (8698 words)

	AI's Response to The Times (UK) Article & Editorial - news.amnesty - Amnesty International
		These are basic human rights, recognised by international law for decades, but neglected in practice by governments across the globe.
		Our recent campaign on Russia drew international attention to a range of serious human rights issues in that country, and we are continuing to highlight individuals at risk both in Chechnya and in Russia as a whole.
		An organisation committed to the release of prisoners of conscience must remain true to its own conscience: that an absolute insistence of respect for basic human rights by all is right in both principle and practice.
	news.amnesty.org /index/ENGEUR457162004 (1087 words)

	U.S. SCORES RP HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD
		Unlike country reports on human rights practices covering 196 countries, issued annually by the State Department, The US Record highlights Washington’s efforts to promote human rights and democracy in countries with the worst human rights records.
		In Laos, the security forces were accused of abusing detainees, especially those suspected of insurgent or anti-government activity.
		The report cited human rights abuses in Malaysia, which it said resulted from the government’s policy of restriction on certain political and civil rights.
	www.newsflash.org /2004/02/hl/hl100379.htm (1068 words)

	Our Jerusalem.com -
		Governments that routinely violate human rights have learned that membership in the commission is a good way to insulate themselves from criticism.
		Three more addressed general concerns about human rights in “occupied Palestine.” One of these, which passed by a vote of 52 to one-with only Guatemala, Israel’s sole defender on the commission, dissenting-asserted “the unqualified right of the Palestinian people to self-determination”; “unqualified” means regardless of their willingness to live in peace with Israel.
		What distinguished this year’s proceedings was not the absence of any genuine concern for human rights but only the new extremes to which the regnant hypocrisy was taken.
	www.ourjerusalem.com /opinion/story/opinion20020715a.html (2141 words)

	State Department's 2004 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - Foreign Press Center Briefing, 2/28/2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Senior Coordinator, Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor, U.S. Department of State
		And are you still considering introducing resolutions on China at a UN convention on human rights this year, and if you do, when are you going to make a decision on that?
		And you need Chinese Government's cooperation for these six-party talks to resolve nuclear issues, and yet you are criticizing China Government for the lack of human rights.
	www.usconsulate.org.hk /uscn/state/2005/022802.htm (314 words)

	Human Rights Reports on Christian Persecution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Christian persecution, persecution of Christians, Christian persecution, human rights, persecuted, persecution in china, religious persecution, persecution, religious liberty, persecution in VietnamChristian martyrs
		This list of human rights violators will grow as information becomes available.
		"Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
	www.persecution.org /Countries/index.html (215 words)

	Amnesty International USA: Most Recent English News Releases
		Human rights activists in the Maldives are frequently the targets of arbitrary detention, torture and ill-treatment, as well as other retaliatory measures such as the filing of apparently unsubstantiated criminal charges against them.
		The failure of successive governments in Bangladesh to stop the assassination of people promoting human rights in the country has encouraged such killings to increase in a climate of total impunity.
		Today Amnesty International called on the Chinese authorities to improve the state of human rights in their country as they promised they would in the lead-up to the Olympic Games, scheduled to begin on August 8, 2008.
	www.amnestyusa.org /rss/en/news/asia.xml (1345 words)

	Genocide against Hmong in Cambodia and Laos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Indeed, the "Killing fields" of Laos throughout the countryside have been going on for 22 years.
		The genocide and human rights violations in Cambodia during the period of the Pol Pot government and which have been going on in Laos since 1975 are "crimes against peace and crimes against humanity." These crimes are like the "Nazi genocide" against six million Jewish people in Europe during World War II.
		The U.S. government must recognize that human rights violations and genocide are taking place within Laos too.
	home.earthlink.net /~laohumrights/laohdl21.html (338 words)

	Lao Human Rights Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lao and Hmong Human Rights Issues (Hmong National Development)
		Human Rights Report: Laos 1995 (US State Department)
		On the writing of Lao history: continuities and discontinuities.
	www.global.lao.net /laovl/rights.htm (53 words)

	Women’s Rights[ - WWW.FIDH.ORG ]
		The FIDH strongly condemns the execution on January 3 of Sani Yukubu Rodi that was convicted by the Sharia court in Katsina of the murder of a woman and her two children.
		The human rights of women and of the girl-child are an inalienable, integral and indivisible part of universal human rights.
		The full and equal participation of women in political, civil, economic, social and cultural life, at the national, regional and international levels, and the eradication of all forms of discrimination on grounds of sex are priority objectives of the international community.
	www.fidh.org /rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=711 (2837 words)

	Human Rights and Democracy Documents
		The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (1789)
		Delclaration on long-term consequences of war in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam - Desmond Tutu (1984)
		Human Rights Watch - Reagan's Human Rights Record (1988)
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Human%20Rights%20Documents/HumanRights_Documents.html (234 words)

	The Akha Heritage Foundation - Petition Filed With UN: Retaliation against Human Rights Defender and his family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Documentation of human rights conditions of the Akha people, investigation of cases, documentation of cases, reporting on cases.
		Matthew McDaniel has worked to expose human rights violations against the Akha people in Thailand for 13 years, as well as having worked to prevent those violations.
		His efforts have been 100% on behalf of the Akha people and their basic rights under The International Bill of Human Rights.
	www.akha.org /article-print-84.html (493 words)

	Thailand: Government must protect human rights defenders
		Amnesty International is gravely concerned by the recent killing of Charoen Wat-aksorn, a well-known human rights defender, and is calling on Thai authorities to take immediate action to investigate his killing and to protect other human rights defenders.
		Moreover, Amnesty International remains concerned by the lack of a proper investigation into the recent deaths of other human rights defenders, including six men killed between September and February 2003.
		Amnesty International calls on the Thai government to demonstrate its commitment to protect human rights defenders by ensuring that justice is done and seen to be done in the investigation of this and other killings, and by publicly condemning this most recent killing in the strongest possible terms.
	www.amnestyusa.org /regions/asia/document.do?id=80256DD400782B8480256EBC005CAAB9 (386 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Rights and Labor Elizabeth Dugan and Senior Advisor Susan O'Sullivan visited Laos November 18-20 for discussions with senior Lao government officials, representatives of Non-Governmental Organizations and members of the diplomatic community on issues pertaining to human rights in Laos.
		O'Sullivan met with Deputy Foreign Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Somsavat Lengsavad, and discussed the importance of human rights to both countries.
		O'Sullivan heard about the country's progress in eradicating poverty and in promoting the human rights of the Lao people.
	usembassy.state.gov /laos/wwwhdugan.html (167 words)

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