The Legislative Commission on Human Rights will focus on implementing the recommendations international organizations have made to Costa Rica in this area. It is...
A UN official called on the Colombian government to step up measures to protect human rights defenders following an upsurge in the number murdered since the signing of a peace agreement with former FARC guerrillas.
In late October, 33-year-old U.S. native Brandon Rowlands died in Costa Rica. Shortly beforehand, he had been placed into an early-release program following a...
A judge's order to release 380 prisoners from Alajuela's overcrowded Gerardo RodrÃguez prison has caused government infighting and pushback from the tourism industry.
Costa Rica was scheduled to begin moving prisoners into its new maximum-security facility today, marking the next step in the government's effort to tighten...
