Six plaintiffs are asking Costa Rica's Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court, or Sala IV, to throw out a constitutionality challenge to an executive decree that would legalize in vitro fertilization…
President Luis Guillermo Solís’ decree legalizing in vitro fertilization in Costa Rica is going before the Supreme Court without the support of two major government agencies. The…
Nearly half of all HIV-positive people in Costa Rica are unemployed or not looking for work, according to a recent survey. The results were first published on…
As World AIDS Day approaches on Dec. 1, the Legislative Assembly's Human Rights Commission has started debating a bill that would reform Costa Rica's HIV-AIDS law to…
Only a quarter of Costa Rican police officers believe that LGBT people have the same rights under the law as straight Costa Ricans, says a new study. The Center for Research and Promotion of…
Auschwitz survivor and former Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) president Thomas Buerguenthal received an honorary doctorate on Friday in recognition of his leadership in and promotion…
BUENOS AIRES, Puntarenas – As government mediators return to San José and peace slowly returns to the Salitre indigenous reserve in Costa Rica’s southeastern region, the charred…
For the second time in a month, Citizen Action Party (PAC) members of the Legislative Assembly seem ready to trade away the interests of LGBT Costa Ricans…
Justice Minister Cristina Ramírez announced new leadership of Costa Rica's penitentiary police Thursday following a scathing report from the Supreme Court alleging torture in La Reforma prison…
Costa Rica’s troubled prisons got dealt another black eye on Wednesday. The Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court, known as the Sala IV, revealed that over 30…
