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Laos in limbo heading into 2023 – East Asia Forum
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Laos in limbo heading into 2023 – East Asia Forum

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Author: Kearrin Sims, James Cook University Laos experienced compounding social and economic pressures in 2022. The headline news story of the year was the country’s dire external debt. 2022 was also significant as it marked the 10th anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Sombath Somphone — a community development worker who provided successful alternatives to…

Outreach program launched to help women, children victims of sexual abuse – Khmer Times
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Outreach program launched to help women, children victims of sexual abuse – Khmer Times

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Lum Kuntheary, Deputy Governor of Kampong Thom Province, participated in the outreach program launched to help women and children who are victims of sexual abuse. The outreach program was joined by more than 400 people from Bdeak village Phan Nhem commune, Prasat Balong district, Kampong Thom. The event was held yesterday morning. Yin Bunrath, Deputy…

Former Assembly Speaker lays out vision for his new role as Nevada's U.S. attorney
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Former Assembly Speaker lays out vision for his new role as Nevada's U.S. attorney

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After more than a decade in state politics and an even longer career in the courtroom, Jason Frierson has a new boss: the federal government. “I’ve always been in some type of advocacy position,” Frierson, the newest U.S. attorney for the District of Nevada, said. “This is the first position within my legal practice where…

What’s at stake in the 2022 midterm election? Here’s everything to watch before Election Day.
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What’s at stake in the 2022 midterm election? Here’s everything to watch before Election Day.

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Midterm elections: How they work and why they’re important This year’s midterms are the first chance for Americans to grade Joe Biden and congressional Democrats on how they’ve been running the country for the past two years. Typically midterms don’t go well for the party in power, and Democrats are defending razor-thin majorities in Congress, as one-third of…

Highest number of human trafficking victims in 2021 from Odisha: NCRB – OrissaPOST
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Highest number of human trafficking victims in 2021 from Odisha: NCRB – OrissaPOST

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Bhubaneswar: The highest number of human trafficking victims in the country in 2021 was from Odisha, the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) said. Of the 6,533 human trafficking victims reported across the country last year, 1,475 people, including 444 women and 497 children, were from Odisha. A total of 6,213 people were rescued last year…

The impact of COVID-19 on human rights
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The impact of COVID-19 on human rights

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I want to focus on how COVID-19 has changed the structural environment in Latin America and what this means for human rights. Also, what it means for crime and anti-crime policies and consequently on human rights issues. Let me first start with those structural changes. Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has had an effect so far…