LOWELL — Red flags with three white elephants hung from every tree surrounding City Hall, a representation of what the people of Laos have been fighting for: their freedom. The flag is the symbol of ...

LOWELL — When Linkham Xaycitdet fled Laos in 1980, the 23-year-old had already endured five years of forced labor in a relocation camp in the desolate mountains of the country’s northern region. After ...

Several groups have issued a joint statement asking the Lao government to repeal a recent order for provinces to keep records of official social media channels and to enforce social media registration ...

Human Rights Watch makes this submission on the occasion of the Australia-Laos Human Rights Dialogue, scheduled for March 2015 in Canberra. Laos recently appeared for its second Universal Periodic ...

Basic rights including religious freedom continue to be routinely violated in Laos, according to a new report by the US State Department. Among the most egregious rights violations in the Southeast ...

Host nation Laos is doing its very best to make sure they don’t.