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<title>Condemning the actions taken by the Lao People's Democratic Republic against the Hmong ChaoFa Indigenous people, and for other purposes.</title>
<summary summary-id="id115hres992v00" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2018-09-05">
<action-date>2018-07-12</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>Urges Laos to cease its assaults on the Hmong community, respect the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and uphold its commitments to human rights treaties. </p> <p>Urges the United Nations to condemn the actions of Laos and invoke the Responsibility to Protect mechanisms. </p>]]></summary-text>
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<dc:contributor>Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress</dc:contributor>
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