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	OHCHR Report 2015
	OHCHR Management Plan 2014-2017
	Human Rights in Action (PDF)
	A Handbook for Civil Society (PDF)

Lao (People's Democratic Republic of)

Status of Ratifications
Reporting Status
Standing invitation to Special Procedures
(No invitation extended)
Voluntary Pledges and Commitments
(Not member of the Human Rights Council)

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Lao (People's Democratic Republic of) and UN Charter-based Bodies

Lao (People's Democratic Republic of) and UN Treaty Bodies

Special Procedures

Country visits by Special Procedures

Most recent Special Procedures' reports

Report of the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief - Mission to the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (A/HRC/13/40/Add.4)

>>Full list of documents in the Charter-based bodies Database

Main page of the Special Procedures

Most recent concluding observations

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children child prostitution and child pornography
Concluding observations (2015) CRC/C/OPSC/LAO/CO/1

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict
Concluding observations (2015) INT/CRC-OP-AC/COC/LAO/20810

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Concluding observations (2012) CERD/C/LAO/CO/16-18

Committee on the Rights of the Child
Concluding observations (2011) CRC/C/LAO/CO/2

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Concluding observations (2009) CEDAW/C/LAO/CO/7

>>Full list of documents in the Treaty Body Database

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Field Operations and Technical Cooperation Division (FOTCD)
Contact is in Geneva, Switzerland.

Asia Pacific Section
Tel. +41 22 928 9650

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