Global and Laos-based rights groups have welcomed recommendations from a United Nations expert body that urged Laos to improve the situation of women’s rights and gender equality. The International ...

For generations, the women of rural Laos have told the stories of their lives through weaving, threading symbols like flowers, rainstorms and mythical serpents into everyday clothes and fabrics.

The Covid-19 pandemic has triggered poverty and economic downturns in the rural heartlands of Laos, fueling an upsurge in the trafficking of women and girls to China, police and women's activists say.

March is National Women’s History Month, when we celebrate the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. March 8 th was also Interrnational Women’s Day. As our Lao ...

For International Women’s Day 2022, we’re talking with women leaders across East Asia and the Pacific who are advancing gender equality today to help create a more sustainable future for all. Inthana ...