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More Information You can find more information about indigenous peoples and Laos from the following sources: IWGIA publications Other sources News and developments on IWGIA's website		People: Brao Photographer: Christian Erni


IWGIA publications Below you will find links to IWGIA publications dealing with indigenous peoples' issues in Laos: *The Indigenous World* An overview of crucial developments in Laos is published in IWGIA's yearbook The Indigenous World. All issues of The Indigenous World from 2001 to 2005, except 2004, are available to download by clicking here. For backcopies please contact iwgia@iwgia.org. Indigenous Affairs "State Policies, Shifting Cultivation and Indigenous Peoples in Laos", by Mi Dze - Click here to download the article from Indigenous Affairs 2/2005 "Bandits or Rebels? Hmong Resistance in the New Lao State", by Gary Yia Lee – Click here to download the article from Indigenous Affairs 4/2000 "The Blessings of the Poppy: Opium and the Akha People of Northern Laos", by Michael Epprecht - Click here to download the article from Indigenous Affairs 4/2000 "More Trouble for the Heuny", by Nok Khamin - Click here to download the article from Indigenous Affairs 4/2000 Back to top		People: Nya Heun Photographer: Christian Erni People: Mien Photographer: Christian Erni


Other sources "Aiding or Abetting? Internal Resettlement and International Aid Agencies in the Lao PDR", by Ian G. Baird and Bruce Shoemaker. Click here to read the article. "Lao tribes suffer from drug crackdown", Article by Tom Fawthrop. Click here to read the article. "Girls' and Women's Education in Laos" by UNESCO. Click here to download the report. "Policy Study on Ethnic Minorities in Rural Development in the Peoples' Democratic Republic of Laos" by Chamberlain, J. Project to Promote ILO Policy on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, International Labour Office, Geneva, 2000. See ILO's website: www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/norm/egalite/itpp/publication/index.htm "Report on 1000 Hmong Lao from Laos Conflict Zones who Arrived in Petchabun, Thailand in 2004-2005" by Rebecca Sommer. Click here to read the report. Asia Development Bank has published a number of publications on indigenous peoples and education, poverty reduction etc. Visit their website: www.adb.org/Publications/country.asp?id=17 The website of Peoples of the Earth (www.peoplesoftheworld.org/bycountry) contains information about a number of the indigenous groups in Laos. Back to top		People: Brao Photographer: Christian Erni People: Brao Photographer: Christian Erni


News and developments on IWGIA's website Click here to go to latest news on indigenous issues in general Click here to go to the Asia section of the news archive Back to top		People: Nya Heun Photographer: Christian Erni