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This booklet explains about the traditions and cultures of Lao ethnic group

An explainer on ethnic groups in Laos and their languages, traditional regions, and cultures.

Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development will require countries to adapt global targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and incorporate these into...

An estimated 30 million people are subject to modernday slavery, including forced labor and sexual exploitation. Moreover, the trafficking of human beings is one of the fastest...

This report, National EFA 2015 Review Report, presents the progress made in achieving the six EFA goals with available disaggregated information. Furthermore, it describes the...

The Voluntary National Review underscores the commitment of the Government of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It summarizes...

The UNODC Regional Office for Southeast Asia and the Pacific recently undertook legislative reviews in the above four countries to examine the extent to which domestic...

Europe and Southeast Asia are the only regions in the world to have adopted comprehensive legally binding anti-trafficking conventions: the Council of Europe Convention on...

The "Ang Intha" Community Protected Area of the biodiversity conservation corridor of natural protected areas with the area of 1,307 hectares is located in Boeng Char village,...

The "Koh Enchey" Community Protected Area of the biodiversity conservation corridor of natural protected areas with the area of 1,380 hectares is located in Koh Enchey village,...

The "Kampong Damrei" Community Protected Area of the biodiversity conservation corridor of natural protected areas with​ the​ area​ of​ 1,302 hectares​ is​ located​ in Kampong...

The "Kampong Kboeung" Community Protected Area of the biodiversity conservation corridor of natural protected areas with the area of 981 hectares is located in Kampong Kboeung...

Various terms are used to characterize fishers knowledge. Here we use situated fishers knowledge to refer to knowledge about long-distance fish migrations held by ethnic Lao...

This booklet explains about the traditions and cultures of Thaen ethnic group

In September 2014, a broad coalition of governments, companies, civil society, and indigenous peoples’ organizations endorsed the New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF). Driven...

The Nam Ou Basin Profile is a collective effort among various stakeholders at the central, provincial, district, and village levels. The main objective of the Nam Ou River Basin...

This report discusses options for identifying and developing forest monitoring methodologies that can estimate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from forest degradation. This is...

Undernutrition levels in Lao PDR remain among the highest in the world, despite both rapid economic growth and a significant decline in poverty over the past years. Concerns...

Economic growth in Lao PDR is projected to rebound to 6.5 percent in 2019, up from 6.3 percent in 2018. This pick up is expected to be driven by growth of the construction...

Rice is Lao PDR's biggest agricultural commodity in terms of farmers involved in production, cropland area allocated, and food consumption. Rice also generates important...