Laos urged to ensure women’s rights, gender equality

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Laos urged to ensure women’s rights, gender equality
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Poverty and low levels of education leave Lao people vulnerable to human trafficking. -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 “increased incidence of rape and domestic violence in the context of economic crises,” has disproportionately affected disadvantaged and marginalized groups of women in Laos, the committee said. According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights , Laos has a high prevalence of child marriage.marry before the age of 18 despite legal prohibition, OCHCR said.

Against this backdrop, casinos in the Lao Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone have used social media to lure hundreds of Lao women to work as “chat girls” with false promises of high salaries, free meals, and free accommodations.Most of the women fail to attain the targets set by casino managers pushing them into debt, the US State Department report said adding that this was used as leverage to subject them to forced labor and sex trafficking.

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