Costa Rica

1951 Refugee Convention 1
Abduction 1
Access to procedures 5
Access to water 2
Africans 1
Airports 1
Animist 9
Appeal / Right to appeal 1
Arbitrary arrest and detention 19
Armed forces / Military 4
Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 10
Asylum policy 2
Asylum-seekers 21
Baha'i 10
Baptist 10
Border controls 1
Burden-sharing and international co-operation 1
Capacity building of state institutions 1
Catholic 12
Ceasefire 1
Child labour 26
Child prostitution 23
Child soldiers 3
Children's rights 45
Children-at-risk 20
Christian 8
Civil and political rights 3
Communal conflict / Social conflict 1
Conflict situation 1
Contemporary forms of slavery 1
Convention against Torture (CAT) 1
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 3
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CPRD) 2
Convention refugee 1
Corruption 11
Creoles 1
Crimes against humanity 1
Criminal justice 8
Death squads 1
Demobilization / Disarmament 1
Democracy 3
Denial of refugee status 1
Deportation / Forcible return 2
Disappeared persons 17
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 29
Domestic violence 22
Drug trafficking 11
Economic, social and cultural rights 24
Effective protection 3
Effective remedy 2
Elections 13
Episcopalian 2
Equal opportunities 1
Evangelical 9
Expulsion 1
Extradition 1
Extrajudicial executions 14
Extreme poverty 2
Family reunification 1
Forced labour 32
Forced marriage 2
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 20
Freedom of assembly and association 30
Freedom of expression 59
Freedom of information 28
Freedom of movement 19
Freedom of religion 41
Freedom of speech 21
Gang related violence 3
Gender discrimination 21
Gender-based persecution 1
Generalized violence 1
Good governance 1
HIV and AIDS 4
Hare Krishna 7
Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 3
Human Rights Council 4
Human rights activists 2
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 47
Human rights courts 1
Human rights monitors 4
Humanitarian assistance 2
Illegal entry 1
Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 1
Immigrants 2
Immigration Detention 7
Immunity 1
Impunity 4
Independence of judiciary 1
Indigenous persons 14
Integration 2
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 9
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) 2
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 2
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) 7
International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 1
International protection 3
Jehovah's Witness 10
Jew 11
Legal representation / Legal aid 1
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 23
Livelihoods 2
Lutheran 10
Methodist 5
Migrant rights 1
Migrants 7
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 2
Minorities 12
Mormon 10
Muslim 10
National security / Public order 1
Naturalization 3
Non-refoulement 1
Non-state agents of persecution 2
Older persons 1
Opposition 3
Orthodox Christian 2
Pentecostal 5
Persecution based on nationality 1
Persecution based on political opinion 3
Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 5
Persons of concern to UNHCR 1
Persons with disabilities 7
Police 9
Political asylum 3
Political groups 1
Political parties 5
Pre-trial detention 3
Prison or detention conditions 24
Property restitution 2
Prostitution / Commercial sex work 10
Protestant 10
Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 1
Public health 3
Racial / Ethnic persecution 5
Reception 3
Referendum 1
Refugee / Asylum law 1
Refugee identity documents 3
Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 6
Refugee travel documents / CTDs 5
Refugees 30
Reintegration 1
Rejected asylum-seekers 2
Rejection at border 1
Religious discrimination 18
Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 10
Resettlement 2
Residence permits / Residency 10
Returnees 2
Right to a nationality 6
Right to education 7
Right to employment 11
Right to health 3
Right to leave 1
Right to liberty and security 1
Right to registration at birth 4
Right to return 2
Right to self-determination 2
Rights of non-citizens 1
Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 7
Sale of children 1
Scientologist 10
Security forces 5
Security situation 3
Serious non-political crime 4
Seventh Day Adventist 8
Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 54
Sexual and reproductive rights 2
Smuggling of persons 5
Social group discrimination 15
Statelessness 11
Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 6
Taoist 10
Temporary admission 1
Temporary protection 2
Terrorism 7
Torture 2
Trafficking in persons 58
Transit 1
Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 1
Travel documents 1
Unaccompanied / Separated children 2
Unification Church 5
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 6
Urban refugees 2
Visas 7
Voluntary repatriation 2
Witnesses 3
Women's rights 27
Women-at-risk 22
Work permits 2

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Costa Rica concerned about Nicaragua's military ties with Russia 5 May 2014 \| Publisher: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty \| Document type: Country News
World Report - Costa Rica May 2014 \| Publisher: Reporters Without Borders \| Document type: Country Profiles
Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 9 of the Convention, Combined nineteenth to twenty-second periodic reports of States parties due in 2012 : Costa Rica 16 April 2014 \| Publisher: UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) \| Document type: States Parties Reports
2013 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - Costa Rica 27 February 2014 \| Publisher: United States Department of State \| Document type: Annual Reports
Gangs in Central America 20 February 2014 \| Publisher: United States Congressional Research Service \| Document type: Country Reports
National report submitted in accordance with paragraph 5 of the annex to Human Rights Council resolution 16/21 : [Universal Periodic Review] : Costa Rica 20 February 2014 \| Publisher: UN Human Rights Council \| Document type: States Parties Reports
Costa Rica must investigate tracking of daily's phone calls 22 January 2014 \| Publisher: Committee to Protect Journalists \| Document type: Country News
Government accused of spying on newspaper's reporters 21 January 2014 \| Publisher: Reporters Without Borders \| Document type: Country News
Global Report on Trafficking in Persons - North America, Central America and the Caribbean 2014 \| Publisher: UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) \| Document type: Regional Reports
Communication No. 1612/2007 : Human Rights Committee : Decision adopted by the Committee at its 109th session (14 October to 1 November 2013) 5 November 2013 \| Publisher: UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) \| Document type: Country/Situation Specific Position Papers

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