Full Coverage: Laos

19.11.2007 Tämänvuotisen Auta Kanssamme -keräyksen teemana on kahden edellisen vuoden tapaan ”Joululahja kehitysmaan lapselle”. Marras–joulukuussa toteutettavan Fidan ja helluntaiseurakuntien perinteisen keräyksen tuotto käytetään kahden koulurakennuksen kunnostamiseen Laosissa.

07.08.2007 The World Bank and the Asian Development Bank’s "model" hydropower project - Nam Theun in Laos - is fast becoming a replica of past dam mistakes, says a new report.
From: The International Rivers Network

10.07.2007 More than 7,000 Hmong refugees in Thailand are in danger of being returned to Laos, where they fear political persecution for cooperating with the U.S. during the Vietnam War. Emmanuel Drouhin explains.

30.03.2007 The Lao military is using the excuse of a long-concluded war to continue attacks on a destitute population of Hmong jungle-dwellers, says a new human rights report.

28.11.2006 Espoo on vuoden 2006 UNICEF-kaupunki. Vuoden aikana Espoossa kerätään varoja erityisesti UNICEFin ohjelmiin Laosissa ja Karjalassa. Keräys sekä ohjelma jatkuvat vuoden viimeiseen päivään saakka, mutta ohjelmallinen huipennus kuullaan 29. marraskuuta Juhlakonsertissa "Päivänsäde ja menninkäinen".

26.09.2006 Los abusos por parte de los diversos cuerpos policíacos, así como por parte de las bandas, persisten en agravio de los indocumentados centroamericanos a su paso por territorio mexicano

16.08.2006 Con la Santa Misa, cantos populares, colocación de ofrendas, testimonios, oraciones comunitarias, rifas y el deguste de pastel y horchata, fue desarrollada la actividad en horas de la noche, lo cual permitió que de una manera muy sentida los y las asistentes compartieran la alegría de celebrar la vida de Monseñor Romero y su gran aporte en la concientización del pueblo salvadoreño.

30.05.2006 A new Lao Television drama developed from child trafficking case studies follows the life of a trafficked teenage girl and teaches the country's youth to "Be Smart, Be Safe."

12.05.2006 Enlazando Alternativas 2, EA2, evento paralelo al encuentro de los jefes de Estado y de Gobierno de América Latina y el Caribe y los de la Unión Europea, inauguró sus actividades

17.01.2006 The Lao Women’s Union has opened their country's first shelter for women and girls who have suffered abuse through domestic violence or trafficking.

15.06.2005 Laos National Radio recently hosted a workshop familiarise radio technicians with designing digital radio studio production system in Vientiane, capital of Laos, from 2 to 13 May 2005.

08.07.2004 Project backers have failed to make an economic case for the Nam Theun 2 energy export scheme in Laos, says a new report by Toronto-based Probe International. The US$1.1-billion dam project would require large-scale flooding and resettlement of thousands of poor farmers - and would be more costly and less reliable than other generating options to serve neighbouring Thailand.

19.05.2004 VCD modules that promote learning and reflection have been developed for migrant girls crossing the Mekong River into Thailand, as well as other groups of at-risk youth. This pilot, developed under a project of the US-based Education Development Center, seeks to demonstrate how VCD
technology - already very popular in the region - can help these girls before they find themselves in compromising situations.

05.04.2004 The use of ICT in non-formal education programmes to foster participation of disadvantaged people in literacy, basic education and continuing education activities is at the centre of projects in Indonesia, Lao PDR, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Uzbekistan that UNESCO's Asia-Pacific Programme of Education for All has launched with funds from Japan.

30.01.2004 Un finanziamento di 60 milioni di euro per una miniera di rame in Laos è stato recentemente approvato dalla Banca Europea per gli Investimenti (BEI). Le organizzazioni internazionali denunciano: si rischia una catastrofe ambientale, il finanziamento è stato concesso senza alcuna valutazione di impatto.

29.01.2004 La Banca europea per gli investimenti (BEI) ha approvato nel tardo pomeriggio di ieri un finanziamento di 60 milioni di euro per il contestato progetto della miniera di rame di Sepon, in Laos, di proprietà della compagnia australiana Oxiana. La notizia è stata accolta con estremo sfavore da parte delle Ong internazionali, tra cui la Campagna per la riforma della Banca mondiale, che nel dicembre scorso erano riuscite a far rinviare la decisione e che oggi denunciano la mancanza di una valutazione di impatto ambientale.

16.01.2004 Various factors make education difficult for girls from ethnic groups in Lao People's Democratic Republic. However, there is inspiration at the nearby Nongpet secondary school. For example, Phongsamay, 18, is one of many girls preparing for university entrance exams.

27.11.2003 Joulukuussa 2003 Euroopan Investointipankin hallitus päättää, lainaako se Laoslaiselle Seponin kuparikaivokselle 60 miljoonaa euroa. Kaivos sijaitsee tärkeällä sademetsä- ja jokialueella ja siitä syntyvä jäte uhkaa tuhota paikallisen luonnon ja ihmisten elinkeinon. Maan ystävät kannustaa allekirjoittamaan vetoomuksen lainan hylkäämiseksi.

03.10.2003 Ongoing conflict between military forces and minority groups, such as the Hmong, in isolated areas of Laos is resulting in the death of dozens of civilians, especially children, as the Laotian army has hemmed in communities preventing them from hunting and foraging for food, according to reports received by Amnesty International.

24.06.2003 The government is strengthening infrastructure related to information and communication technologies in primary, secondary and tertiary level schools to achieve 50 per cent e-literacy by year 2007. The effort will increase competence and nurture creativity.