Costa Rica

• Amnesty International 4
• Child Soldiers International 3
• Committee to Protect Journalists 13
• Freedom House 30
• Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) 3
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 5
• International Federation for Human Rights 2
• International Trade Union Confederation 8
• Reporters Without Borders 3
• UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 4
• United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants 6
• United States Department of Labor 15
• United States Department of State 57

• Abduction 1
• Access to procedures 2
• Airports 1
• Animist 9
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 18
• Armed forces / Military 3
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 2
• Asylum policy 1
• Asylum-seekers 4
• Baha'i 10
• Baptist 10
• Catholic 11
• Child labour 23
• Child prostitution 20
• Child soldiers 3
• Children's rights 34
• Children-at-risk 16
• Christian 8
• Civil and political rights 1
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 1
• Conflict situation 1
• Contemporary forms of slavery 1
• Corruption 9
• Criminal justice 5
• Demobilization / Disarmament 1
• Democracy 3
• Disappeared persons 15
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 17
• Domestic violence 5
• Drug trafficking 7
• Economic, social and cultural rights 13
• Effective protection 1
• Effective remedy 1
• Elections 11
• Episcopalian 2
• Evangelical 9
• Extrajudicial executions 14
• Extreme poverty 2
• Family reunification 1
• Forced labour 30
• Forced marriage 1
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 14
• Freedom of assembly and association 29
• Freedom of expression 51
• Freedom of information 22
• Freedom of movement 17
• Freedom of religion 38
• Freedom of speech 18
• Gender discrimination 16
• Gender-based persecution 1
• Generalized violence 1
• HIV and AIDS 1
• Hare Krishna 7
• Human rights activists 3
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 27
• Human rights courts 1
• Human rights monitors 3
• Humanitarian assistance 1
• Immigration Detention 3
• Impunity 3
• Independence of judiciary 1
• Indigenous persons 9
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 2
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 1
• International protection 3
• Jehovah's Witness 10
• Jew 10
• Legal representation / Legal aid 1
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 7
• Livelihoods 1
• Lutheran 10
• Methodist 5
• Migrants 2
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 2
• Minorities 6
• Mormon 10
• Muslim 10
• Older persons 1
• Opposition 1
• Orthodox Christian 2
• Pentecostal 5
• Persecution based on nationality 1
• Persecution based on political opinion 2
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 4
• Persons of concern to UNHCR 1
• Persons with disabilities 6
• Police 4
• Political parties 1
• Pre-trial detention 1
• Prison or detention conditions 16
• Property restitution 2
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 8
• Protestant 10
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 1
• Public health 2
• Referendum 1
• Refugee identity documents 2
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 4
• Refugee travel documents / CTDs 2
• Refugees 10
• Reintegration 1
• Rejected asylum-seekers 2
• Rejection at border 1
• Religious discrimination 18
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 10
• Resettlement 2
• Right to education 5
• Right to employment 8
• Right to health 1
• Right to registration at birth 1
• Right to self-determination 2
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 6
• SGBV 21
• Scientologist 10
• Security forces 4
• Security situation 2
• Serious non-political crime 3
• Seventh Day Adventist 8
• Sexual and reproductive rights 1
• Smuggling of persons 3
• Social group discrimination 13
• Statelessness 6
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 3
• Taoist 10
• Temporary protection 1
• Torture 1
• Trafficking in persons 48
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 1
• Unification Church 5
• Women's rights 20
• Women-at-risk 13

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• Amnesty International - Costa Rica
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Costa Rica
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Costa Rica
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC regional delegation in Mexico
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) - Costa Rica
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Costa Rica
• ReliefWeb - Costa Rica
• UNHCR - Costa Rica
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Costa Rica
• United States Department of State - Costa Rica
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Costa Rica