Laos: The Missing Children of Laos (Web feature)

Index Number: ASA 26/005/2007
Date Published: 22 March 2007
Categories: Asia And The Pacific, Laos

The Lao government claims to have "found" 21 girls and young women who have been missing since December 2005 when they were deported from Thailand. But the young Hmong asylum-seekers are still separated from their families and their current whereabouts remain unknown.