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Select Committee
The Rt Hon Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP (FCDO) to the Chair, regarding sanctions announced by HMG, dated 8 December 2023

Correspondence Jan. 08 2024

Committee: International Relations and Defence Committee

Found: Nine individuals and five entities across Cambodia , the Golden Triangle Economic Zone (bordering Laos

Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Home Office

Jan. 05 2024

Source Page: Immigration Rules archive: 15 November 2023 to 27 December 2023
Document: Immigration Rules archive: 15 November 2023 to 27 December 2023 (PDF)

Found: Iran Iraq Jamaica Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Korea (North) Kosovo Kuwait * Kyrgyzstan Laos

Select Committee
Correspondence from the Minister of State (Indo-Pacific) relating to the Human Rights Sanctions Package, dated 08/12/2023

Correspondence Dec. 20 2023

Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: Nine individuals and five entities across Cambodia , the Golden Triangle Economic Zone (bordering Laos

Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Department for Work and Pensions

Dec. 11 2023

Source Page: National Insurance number instructions for staff
Document: eNIRS knowledge library (PDF)

Found: Kazakhstan 100 Kenya 061 Kiribati 022 Kuwait 062 Kyrgyzstan, Republic of 101 Back to top L Laos

Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Home Office

Dec. 08 2023

Source Page: UK and allies sanction human rights abusers
Document: UK and allies sanction human rights abusers (webpage)

Found: targets nine individuals and five entities for their involvement in trafficking people in Cambodia, Laos

Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Home Office

Dec. 08 2023

Source Page: UK and allies sanction human rights abusers
Document: here (PDF)

Found: CCPR/C/VNM/CO/3, 29 August 2019, para.39; US Department of State, 2022 Trafficking in Persons Report: Laos

Non-Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Trade and Agriculture Commission

Dec. 07 2023

Source Page: CPTPP accession: advice from Trade and Agriculture Commission
Document: Trade and Agriculture Commission: advice to the Secretary of State for Business and Trade on the Accession Protocol of the UK to CPTPP (PDF)

Found: typically be found in lakes and rivers in Viet Nam (mainly in the Mekong Delta) , as well as Thailand, Laos

Written Question
Laos: Religious Freedom
Monday 4th December 2023

Asked by: Brendan O'Hara (Scottish National Party - Argyll and Bute)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the level of observance of the right to (a) assemble, (b) worship freely and (c) other aspects of freedom of religion and belief in Laos.

Answered by Anne-Marie Trevelyan - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

The UK is committed to promoting and defending Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB), as demonstrated by our hosting the 'International Ministerial Conference on Freedom of Religion or Belief' in July 2022. We also work through the UN to promote and protect these rights. The UK Embassy in Laos raises concerns about limitations on freedom of expression and other human rights issues, including freedom of religion, on a regular basis, both publicly and in private. We do this bilaterally with the Government of Laos as well as at the UN Human Rights Council. I visited Laos in September 2023 and raised our concern over particular human rights cases with Laos Ministers.

Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Home Office

Nov. 20 2023

Source Page: Immigration Rules archive: 5 October 2023 to 14 November 2023
Document: Immigration Rules archive: 5 October 2023 to 14 November 2023 (PDF)

Found: Iran Iraq Jamaica Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Korea (North) Kosovo Kuwait * Kyrgyzstan Laos

Select Committee
Transform Trade
 ACP0024 - UK accession to Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP)

Written Evidence Oct. 24 2023

Inquiry: UK accession to Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP)
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: International Agreements Committee

Found: likely graduate from LDC status within the next decade, including Angola, Nepal, Bangladesh and Laos