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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 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 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.
Before 1994, all phone numbers in Costa Rica were six digits long. The Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, which at that time had the monopoly on telecommunications, introduced a system in which the telephone numbers in every province were assigned a prefix to make them 7 digits long. This numbering system was effective for some time.
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.
Jacó and San José are two of Costa Rica's most prominent sex-tourism locations. Money made by prostitutes is enough to keep the majority of Jacó's businesses open during the off season, as it provides a significant economic supplement. [32] Americans are the majority of Costa Rica's sex tourists, composing 80% of the total number of tourists ...
Not to confuse with the Constituent Assembly of Costa Rica Interior of the Costa Rican National Palace, see of the Congress. The Constitutional Congress of Costa Rica was the unicameral parliament of the country for most of its history. It was established in the Political Constitution of 1871.