Lao People's Democratic Republic receives only a small number of cases involving claims for international protection per year. The country is not a signatory to the 1951 Convention, and there is no ...

including young people – more than half of the population of Laos is under the age of 25. In the absence of a vibrant civic space, stagnation sets in, and corruption remains hidden. Policies to ...

The human rights record of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic will be examined by the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group for the fourth time on ...

Jochen M. Schmittmann is the Regional Resident Representative for the IMF Resident Offices in Vietnam, Cambodia and Lao PDR. Before that, he was the Deputy Head of the IMF’s Regional Office for Asia ...

Of the nine Framework's domains, Lao People's Democratic Republic, located in the Asia and the Pacific region, scores highest in Leadership And Organisation & Social Cohesion. Learn more about the ...