Costa Rica

• Annual Reports 159
• Chronologies of Events 1
• Commentaries 1
• Comments on Concluding Observations 1
• Compilations 1
• Concluding Observations 14
• Country News 18
• Country Operations Plans 6
• Country Profiles 3
• Country Reports 34
• Country/Situation Specific Position Papers 1
• Legal Articles/Analyses/Commentaries 1
• Mission Reports 3
• National Legislation 1
• Query Responses 289
• Regional Reports 11
• Research, Background and Discussion Papers 1
• Sessional Reports 1
• States Parties Reports 23
• Thematic Reports 3
• UNHCR Country Updates 3

• 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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• 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