Category: Laos
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[JOINT STATEMENT] Laos: States should ask “Where is Sombath?” at upcoming review of human rights record
15 December 2024: On the 12-year anniversary of the unresolved enforced disappearance of Lao civil...
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Shui-Meng Ng speech delivered remotely at the opening of the 27th session of the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) in Geneva, 23 September 2024.
“Where is Sombath?” Family of disappeared Lao activist demands answers
Originally posted at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)...
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Letter to Sombath on his birthday, 17 February 2024
My dearest Sombath, Today is 17 February, and once again it’s your birthday. You would be 72...
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Solidarity Messages on the 11th year of the enforced disappearance of Sombath Somphone and other cases of enforced disappearance
https://focusweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Sombath11_Galil.mp4 This year marks the 75th year...
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Laos: 11 years of government inaction on Sombath Somphone’s enforced disappearance
15 December 2023: On the 11-year anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Lao civil society...
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Thailand/Laos: Investigate the Killing of Lao Refugee and Put an End to Transnational Repression of Human Rights Defenders
Originally published at the Amnesty International’s website here. In response to news on 17...
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Anousa “Jack” Luangsouphom, a young Lao blogger. Photo from https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100073952982858.
[AEPF] FIND AND PUNISH ANOUSA’S ATTACKERS; END VIOLENCE AND IMPUNITY!
The Organising Committee of the Asia-Europe Peoples’ Forum (AEPF) expresses our shock and anger at...
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Lao national and 2005 Magsaysay Award recipient Sombath Somphone stands beside a poster of fellow awardee V. Shanta during a press conference in Manila, Philippines on Monday 29 August 2005. Photo: EPA/ROLEX DELA PENA
Laos: After 10 years, civil society worldwide is still asking: “Where is Sombath?”
Joint Statement Ahead of the 10-year anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Lao civil...
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TEN YEARS AFTER, SOMBATH SOMPHONE’S LEGACY LIVES ON
Focus on the Global South co-organized with the Asia Europe Peoples’ Forum, Embassy of Netherlands...
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Upcoming Event: Honoring the Legacy of Sombath Somphone [2 December 2022]
Focus on the Global South, Asia Europe People’s Forum, Embassy of the Netherlands in...
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Book Launch: “Silencing of a Laotian Son – the Life, Work and Enforced Disappearance of Sombath Somphone”
On Tuesday, 14 December 2021, a book launch and discussion of “Silencing of a Laotian...
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Laos: Nine years on, civil society worldwide still demands answers on Sombath’s enforced disappearance
(15 December 2021) On the ninth anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Lao civil...
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