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2018 Trafficking in Persons Report
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
United States Department of State
2018
This report summarizes human trafficking situations in the global setting. It focuses on effective ways local communities can address human trafficking proactively and on how na...
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Human Rights and Human Trafficking
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
OHCHR
2014
This is a fact sheet published by the UN Human Rights Office of the Commissioner on Human Rights and Human Trafficking. The piece provides a definition of trafficking, states' o...
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Violence Against Children in Lao PDR
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
UNICEF
2018
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 Child...
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Trafficking in persons from Cambodia, Lao PDR and Myanmar to Thailand
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
2017
This report covers human trafficking within Cambodia, Lao PDR and Myanmar. Afterwards, further observations and intervention methods are covered.
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The territorial politics of land use planning in Laos
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Diana Suhardiman, Oulavanh Keovilignavong, Miles Kenney-Lazar
2019
This paper examines land use planning processes in Laos, particularly how they are shaped and reshaped by key actors interests and strategies across scales and how they are clos...
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Decree on Controlled Concession List in Lao PDR
Lao People's Democratic Republic
No.03/PM
Law
January 10, 2019
This decree comprises of 8 articles, identified what is the controlled list of concession, and the role of each government unit who will take in charge of controlled list of con...
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Decision on the Establishment and Management of Zoos, Wildlife farms, the breeding of wild animals and plants, and rehabilitation centres [Lao PDR]
Lao People's Democratic Republic
No. 0188/MFA
Decision
February 3, 2019
The Decision, which is posted on the official gazette, permits individuals, legal entities and organisations to establish and operate zoos, wildlife farms, and wild fauna and fl...
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Changes in Understandings of Land in Laos: From State Sovereignty to Capital Mobilization
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Ian G. Baird
2019
My discussion with Mrs Khamtanh is relevant for thinking about how peoples conceptualizations of land have changed in Laos, not only between non-communist and communist periods,...
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Annual Country Reviews 2018-19 [Mekong Land Research Forum]
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Issue and policy briefs
Mekong Land Research Forum
2019
The Annual Country Reviews reflect upon current land issues in the Mekong Region, and has been produced for researchers, practitioners and policy advocates operating in the fiel...
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Chinese Agriculture in Southeast Asia: Investment, Aid and Trade in Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Mark Grimsditch
2017
"Since the adoption of China's 'going out' strategy, Chinese enterprises have been strongly encouraged to engage overseas in a range of sectors, including agriculture. This has ...
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Open Data Inventory 2018 - Lao PDR
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Profiles - Geographical areas and sites
Open Data Watch
2019
The profile page informs the state for open data in Lao PDR in 2018. Lao PDR ranks 162 in the Open Data Inventory 2018 with an overall score of 22%. The overall score is a combi...
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Introduction to Special Issue on "Land Governance in Laos"
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Ian G. Baird
2019
In recent years there has been considerable controversy in the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic (Lao PDR or Laos) regarding decisions by the government to issue long-term land co...
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Dead in the Water: Global Lessons from the World Bank's model Hydropower project in Laos
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Bruce Shoemaker and William Robichaud
2018
In June 2018, the University of Wisconsin Press published a new book about the Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Project in Laos. The books findings relate to issues of environmental susta...
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Shifting Cultivation in Laos: Transitions in Policy and Perspective
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Miles Kenney-Lazar
2013
This report addresses the complex issue of shifting cultivation, which was brought up at the 2011 Round Table Implementation Meeting between the Lao government and international...
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Ethnic group development plan for health governance and nutrition development project
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Advocacy and promotional materials
Ministry of Health, Lao PDR
2015
The Ethnic Group Development Plan (EGDP) provides a strategy and a programmatic approach to enhance the inclusion of different ethnic groups in the Health Services Improvement P...
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Civilising the uplands: development of rubber plantations in remote areas of Lao PDR
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Wasana La-orngplew
2010
This paper begins with the global context of the rubber expansion. The paper then summarises what have been seen as the upland problems and some limited success to resolve the u...
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Ethnic Groups Engagement Framework
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Issue and policy briefs
Department of Planning, Investment and Finance, Ministry of...
2017
This document is the Ethnic Group Engagement Framework (EGEF) for the proposed Lao Agriculture Commercialization Project (ACP) prepared in conjunction with the Lao PDR Ministry ...
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Lao PDR: Health Sector Governance Program
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Ministry of Health, Lao PDR
2015
The proposed Health Sector Governance Program will be implemented nationally with the overarching goal to increase access, quality, and utilization of essential health services,...
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Ethno-linguistic diversity and disadvantage
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Books and book chapters
King, E., and Dominique van de Walle
2010
This paper examines various aspects of the living standards of Lao PDR‘s ethnic minority groups relative to that of the historically dominant Lao-Tai ethno-linguistic group. Th...
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Governing Communal Land in the Lao PDR
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Miles Kenney-Lazar
2017
Communally used land and resources comprise a critically important dimension of rural livelihoods in the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic (Lao PDR). Communal ...