Australia: Press Laos on Rights Abuses

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Shui-Meng Ng holds a picture of her husband, Sombath Somphone, the forcibly disappeared Lao activist, following a press conference in Bangkok, Thailand, December 12, 2018. © 2018 ROMEO GACAD/AFP via Getty Images (Sydney) – Australian officials should press the Lao government to take concrete steps to improve its human rights record, Human Rights Watch said today. The 9th Australia-Laos Human Rights Dialogue is scheduled for Vientiane on November 18, 2025.In an October submission to Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Human Rights Watch urged…

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