Hmong rights in Lao: UNPO Presents joint-submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The Hmong are an indigenous group originating from Laos, Southern China, Viet Nam, Myanmar and Thailand. They are ethnically distinct from the Laotian population, possessing their own written and spoken language, culture and religion. The Hmong constitute the third largest, yet most targeted and oppressed, ethnic group in the LPDR. Institutionalized and systemic discrimination of the Hmong is extensive...