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The United League for Democracy in Laos, Inc. (ULDL) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO) based in the Washington, D.C.-area with chapters and members in the United States, Southeast Asia, Thailand and Laos. The ULDL has works to provide information about developments in Laos regarding civil society, human rights, pro-democracy, religious freedom, political prisoners and environmental issues. ==Promoting civil society, human rights, and religious freedom issues in Laos and Vietnam== The ULDL has issued several international appeals and statements urging the Laos government and the government of Vietnam to abide by international human rights law and to release political and religious dissidents and opposition leaders.〔Scoop Independent News, Auckland, New Zealand, (16 November 2011) "United League Issues Human Rights Appeal - Laos, Vietnam" http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1111/S00456/united-league-issues-human-rights-appeal-laos-vietnam.htm〕〔Business Wire, Washington, D.C. (16 March 2011) "Laos, Hmong Crisis: Rights Groups Make International Appeal" http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110316007171/en/Laos-Hmong-Crisis-Rights-Groups-International-Appeal〕〔Politics and Government Weekly, (31 March 2011) "Laos, Hmong Crisis: Rights Groups Make International Appeal. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-253125241.html〕〔China Weekly News, (3 August 2010) "Laos Communique Urges Release of Jailed Americans, Dissidents, Hmong Refugees." http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-233340183.html〕 In 2011, the ULDL raised concerns about the religious persecution in Southeast Asia and the killing of Lao and Hmong dissident and independent Christians, Buddhists and Animist religious believers by Lao People's Army and Vietnam People's Army troops.〔The Telegraph, (Australia) "Laos, Vietnam troops kill Hmong Christians" (16 April 2011) http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/laos-vietnam-troops-kill-hmong-christians/story-e6freuyi-1226040033388〕 Khampet Moukdarath, a former political prisoner in Laos,who spend years under harsh conditions in a reeducation camp in the Lao gulag system in Northeastern Laos was a prominent leader in the ULDL prior to his death in 2011.〔Scoop Independent News, Auckland, New Zealand, (26 November 2011), "Laos Human Rights Advocate Dies" http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1111/S00750/laos-human-rights-advocate-dies.htm〕 Khampet Moukdarath repeatedly testified and presented research and evidence of ongoing human rights violations, and religious persecution and freedom violations, in Laos, at the U.S. Congressional Forum on Laos in the 1990s thru 2010. The ULDL and its President Bounthanh Rathigna have provided information to and urged the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) to investigate ongoing religious persecution and religious freedom violations in Laos and to officially designated Laos as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC). In 2003, Laotian- and Hmong-Americans lauded the USCIRF's efforts in officially designating Laos as a CPC violator of international norms of religious freedom for its persecution of independent and dissident Lao and Hmong Christians, Catholic, Animist and Buddhist religious believers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「United League for Democracy in Laos」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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