Costa Rica

• Amnesty International 4
• Child Soldiers International 3
• Committee to Protect Journalists 13
• Freedom House 21
• Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) 2
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 2
• International Federation for Human Rights 2
• International Trade Union Confederation 7
• Reporters Without Borders 3
• UN High Commissioner for Refugees 1
• United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants 6
• United States Department of Labor 11
• United States Department of State 47

• Abduction 1
• Access to procedures 2
• Airports 1
• Animist 6
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 18
• Armed forces / Military 2
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 2
• Asylum-seekers 3
• Baha'i 7
• Baptist 7
• Catholic 8
• Child labour 16
• Child prostitution 15
• Child soldiers 3
• Children's rights 28
• Children-at-risk 14
• Christian 5
• Civil and political rights 1
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 1
• Conflict situation 1
• Contemporary forms of slavery 1
• Corruption 5
• Criminal justice 5
• Demobilization / Disarmament 1
• Disabled persons 3
• Disappeared persons 15
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 16
• Domestic violence 3
• Drug trafficking 3
• Economic, social and cultural rights 13
• Effective protection 1
• Effective remedy 1
• Elections 6
• Episcopalian 2
• Evangelical 7
• Extrajudicial executions 14
• Extreme poverty 2
• Forced labour 26
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 14
• Freedom of assembly and association 24
• Freedom of expression 43
• Freedom of information 17
• Freedom of movement 17
• Freedom of religion 32
• Freedom of speech 17
• Gender discrimination 16
• Gender-based persecution 1
• Hare Krishna 6
• Human rights activists 3
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 22
• Human rights courts 1
• Human rights monitors 2
• Humanitarian assistance 1
• Immigration Detention 3
• Impunity 1
• Independence of judiciary 1
• Indigenous persons 5
• International protection 2
• Jehovah's Witness 7
• Jew 7
• Legal representation / Legal aid 1
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 2
• Lutheran 7
• Methodist 5
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 2
• Minorities 6
• Mormon 7
• Muslim 7
• Opposition 1
• Orthodox Christian 2
• Pentecostal 2
• Persecution based on nationality 1
• Persecution based on political opinion 2
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 3
• Persons of concern to UNHCR 1
• Police 3
• Political parties 1
• Prison or detention conditions 11
• Property restitution 2
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 4
• Protestant 7
• Public health 2
• Referendum 1
• Refugee identity documents 2
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 2
• Refugee travel documents / CTDs 2
• Refugees 6
• Reintegration 1
• Rejected asylum-seekers 2
• Rejection at border 1
• Religious discrimination 18
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 10
• Resettlement 1
• Right to education 5
• Right to employment 7
• Right to health 1
• Right to self-determination 2
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 2
• SGBV 17
• Scientologist 7
• Security forces 3
• Security situation 2
• Serious non-political crime 2
• Seventh Day Adventist 7
• Smuggling of persons 3
• Social group discrimination 13
• Stateless persons 4
• Taoist 7
• Trafficking in persons 41
• Unification Church 4
• Women's rights 18
• Women-at-risk 13

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• AlertNet - Costa Rica
• 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