United Nations human rights expert urges communist-ruled Laos to focus less on foreign-invested dam and railway contracts and devote more resources to helping its children and the poor, ekurtenbach writes.
FILE - In this July 26, 2018, file photo, a man paddles his boat through a flooded village after a dam in southeastern Laos collapsed, in the Sanamxay district, Attapeu province, Laos. A United Nations human rights expert is urging Laos to focus less on big, foreign-invested dam and railway contracts and devote more resources to helping its children and the poor. Philip Alston, the U.N.
Alston made the remarks in a news conference livestreamed from Laos’ capital, Vientiane, after he toured parts of rural Laos, including an area devastated by a dam collapse last year. Alston said many infrastructure and plantation projects take land from local residents, forcing their resettlement. Most generate too few jobs and result in too much debt, he said.
“You might have no interest in children, but all you have to know is they are the economic future,” he said. “You’re not going to have a great workforce with those statistics as your starting point.”
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