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Government Action Plans

Action Plan Overview

The Government of Laos does not currently have a fully elaborated national action plan for human trafficking, but has set up an Inter-ministerial committee on trafficking in persons and labor issues and has recently tasked the MoLSW with negotiating another MOU with Thailand, regarding TIP specifically. The Government devotes some limited resources for the protection of children and has established a team of Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare workers to follow up on trafficking issues.

The U.S. has allocated funds to the Mekong Region (which includes Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos) in order to provide return and reintegration assistance to victims of trafficking.¹

¹U.S. Department of State, International Information Programs, "Fact Sheet: Clinton Administration Action on Human Trafficking," January 2000.