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To mark the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC30), the world’s most widely ratified human rights treaty, the National Commission for the Advancement of Women, Mothers and Children (NCAWMC), with the support of UNICEF Lao PDR, organized today the first ever private sector consultation on child rights and business in Lao PDR.

Press release

10 October 2019

First ever private sector consultation on child rights and business in Lao PDR

Barely any time to freshen up in the morning, Xaiathon prepares the day’s meals for the boys for when she and her husband are at the farm all day. In between cooking meals, she checks on her laundry, dampened by the rain from the night before.

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Life of a working rural mother

A day is (almost) never enough

Mr. Nouphone Kettavong - the 60-year-old head of the Village Front construction of Nonsavad village, Kaysone Phomvihane City, Savannakhet province

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Child rights are human rights

Child rights are human rights – how a small village is protecting children

Students of Xiepien lower secondary school

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Rebuilding schools and lives in Attapeu

Rebuilding schools and lives in Attapeu

EU-UNICEF Partnership: LAOS PDR

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EU-UNICEF Partnership: LAOS PDR

Partnership for improved nutritional and educational outcomes

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School in Rwanda

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Better ways to measure and promote early education: Lessons

Better ways to measure and promote early education: Lessons from Lao PDR