The UN Newsletter - Working for Lao PDR -  is published twice a year to highlight important and topical issues to the Lao PDR. 

In the latest issue, you can read more about:

• Lao PDR taking lead on the Convention on Cluster Munitions
• MDG 2: Fulfilling the right to education of every child
• MDG 5: Reducing maternal mortality
• MDG 7: Managing natural resources for environmental sustainability
• MDG 1: School meals for a brighter future
• MDG 3: Gender equality is good economics 

The newest DevInfo initiative was launched 5 April in Vientiane. The initiative will better enable the Government of Lao PDR and the National Commission for Mother and Child to further advance the well-being of the most vulnerable mothers and children across the country. The innovative initiative will also help build other important work and achievements related to the Millennium Development Goals. 

Remarks by Ms Sonam Yangchen Rana, UN Resident Coordinator 

12 February 2010, the ground-breaking Summit on Adolescent & Youth Health Development was convened at Don Chan Palace in Vientiane with the theme “Young People’s Health in the Lao PDR: Why Worry?” The meeting was cordially co-chaired by H.E Dr. Bounkhouang Phichith, Vice Minister of Health and Mr. Serge Verniau, UNRC a.i to Lao PDR.

More than 150 top level participants were in attendance including representatives from National Assembly, government ministries, mass organizations, INGOs, Development Partners, journalists and young people. The meeting was jointly facilitated and supported by Ministry of Health and four UN agencies: UNFPA, UNICEF, UNODC and WHO. [Read more]

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Ms. Asma Jahangir, will visit Lao PDR from 23 to 30 November 2009, at the invitation of the Government, in what is the first mission to the country by a UN human rights expert monitoring religious freedom.

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In "The Responsibility to Deliver", Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon reflects on the events of 2008, the challenges facing the United Nations in 2009 and the necessity for progress and delivery of goals in the year to come.

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9 December 2008 - Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights
National Cultural Hall, Vientiane

Opening Remarks by Sonam Yangchen Rana, UN Resident Coordinator

24 November 2008 - Signing Ceremony: UN Joint Programme Support to an Effective Lao National Assembly (SELNA)
UN House, Vientiane

Remarks by Sonam Yangchen Rana, UN Resident Coordinator