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Resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the human rights crisis of Laotian and Hmong people in Laos and Thailand.

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Hmong Lao in Nong Khai Detention Centre Appeal for Justice and Human Rights from Thai Government.
Posted: 09:47 PM CDT, August 16, 2007

Facing insufficient food supplies and forced isolation in a detention centre in Nong Kai, Thailand, over 150 Hmong Lao appeal to the Thai Government and the international community for help and justice.

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U.S. Congressional Forum on Laos
Posted: 7:00 PM CDT July 31, 2007

"A special session of the U.S. Congressional Forum on Laos will be held to discuss the current crisis in Laos and Thailand facing Hmong and Laotian refugees and asylum seekers.""

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Thirty-one Hmong-Lao facing deportation from Thailand back to Laos.
Posted: 05:00 PM CDT, May 24, 2007

Thirty-one Hmong-Lao are to be forcibly deported back to Laos by Thai officials. Below is LHRC's letter to the United Nations and human rights organization's to call attention to the situation.

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Intervention and Joint Letters to United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, May 14-26, 2007
Posted: 18:00 PM CDT, May 18, 2007

Lao Human Rights Council joint statement to the United Nations in regards to the human rights violations against the Hmong-Lao in Laos.

Recent Letters
Posted: 06:00 PM CDT, February 11, 2007

One hundred and fifty-two Thailand Refuges Face Forcible Return
Posted: 10:00 PM CDT, December 13, 2006

A group of 152 Lao Hmong refugees and 16 asylum seekers are in imminent danger of being forced to return to Laos from Thailand where they will be in danger of severe human rights violation including torture and deprivation. These individuals have been moved to a detention center on the Lao border with Thailand.

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"Hunted Like Animals"
Posted: 09:36 AM CDT, October 20, 2006

Rebecca Sommer traveled in 2005 and 2006 to the Hmong refugee camp White Water, Petchabun, in Thailand, where she filmed and directed an awareness raising documentary focusing on the Hmong refugees, who fled military aggressions in Laos. As a human rights advocate and rrepresentative of the Society for Threatened Peoples International, a NGO in consultative status to the United Nations ECOSOC, Sommer enabled hundreds of Hmong refugees to voice their human rights violation claims. The testimonies of the Hmong refugees are interwoven into the documentary like a tapestry, revealing the human face behind the shocking ongoing situation in the remote mountains of Laos, where the Hmong-in-hiding are Hunted like Animals.

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