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The Provincial Constituent Congress of Costa Rica was convened twice in the then Province of Costa Rica immediately after the independence of Spain. First with the country as a province, at least nominally, part of the First Mexican Empire, and the second as a province of the newly created Federal Republic of Central America. In both cases, it ...
The Marcha de las putas (SlutWalk) in 2011 in San José, promoting women's rights and LGBT rights. A sign at the Marcha de las putas in 2011, saying "I am bisexual, calm down!". LGBT rights in Costa Rica have made significant cultural, social and legal progress since the 1970s.
The American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR), also known as the Pact of San José or by its Spanish name used in most of the signatory nations, Convención Americana sobre Derechos Humanos, is an international human rights instrument. [1] [2] It was adopted by many countries in the Western Hemisphere in San José, Costa Rica, on 22
The Supreme Electoral Court of Costa Rica (TSE) (Spanish: Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones de Costa Rica), is the supreme election commission of the Republic of Costa Rica. The Electoral Court was established in 1949 by the present Constitution of Costa Rica.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (I/A Court H.R.) is an international court based in San José, Costa Rica.Together with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, it was formed by the American Convention on Human Rights, a human rights treaty ratified by members of the Organization of American States (OAS).
The party was created in 2018 by their founder Luz Mary Alpízar Loaiza, formerly part of New Generation Party. [7]For the 2022 general elections, the party served as the electoral vehicle for the presidential ambitions of Rodrigo Chaves Robles, a recognized economist who worked at the World Bank and who was later called to be Minister of Finance in 2019.
The article 75 of the Constitution of Costa Rica establishes Catholicism as the country's state religion making Costa Rica the only state in the Americas to do so. [note 1] Current debate about the issue and the passing toward a full secular state are in the public and political debate. This article is also the only one in the Title VI, only ...
The Ministry of Justice and Peace of Costa Rica is the ministerial body in charge of administering the country's prisons, assisting the rehabilitation and social reintegration of the prison population, and representing the interests of the State through the General Procurator's Office in Costa Rica.