111.118
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Improve access to, and the quality of, education for children, especially those living in rural areas and those belonging to minorities, and implement effective strategies to reduce school dropout and exclusion rates
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Date modified
- Mar 8, 2021
111.56
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to support the institutional policy for access to justice for persons of African descent
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Access to justice
- Minority rights
- Date modified
- Feb 17, 2021
111.16
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend its criminal law to increase the penalties for racial discrimination and to consider it as an aggravating circumstance, especially against indigenous peoples and persons of African descent
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Date modified
- May 27, 2020
111.196
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Address ongoing racial inequality, particularly for indigenous and Afro-Costa Rican communities, and adopt a coordinated strategy to combat child labour and sexual abuse among disadvantaged and migrant communities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- Migrants
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Rights of the Child
- Date modified
- May 27, 2020
111.197
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to promote respect for, and the promotion of, the rights of indigenous populations and people of African descent
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Date modified
- May 27, 2020
111.85
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to pursue the strengthening of systems to deepen social inclusion and the enjoyment of human rights by persons of African descent, indigenous persons, migrants and refugees
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
- Indigenous peoples
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Date modified
- May 27, 2020
111.25
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen the implementation of measures address marginalization and discrimination against persons of African descent, including through enhancing institutional capacity to systematically document, investigate and prosecute acts of discrimination
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Date modified
- May 27, 2020
111.26
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue with and increase efforts at tackling discrimination against people of African descent and all minorities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Date modified
- May 27, 2020
111.195
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Eliminate the structural discrimination against indigenous peoples and people of African descent, and ensure their access to education
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Right to education
- Date modified
- May 27, 2020
111.199
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue the actions of the International Decade for People of African Descent
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Date modified
- May 27, 2020
111.198
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Provide adequate human and financial resources to the Presidential Commissioner on African Affairs with a view to establishing a permanent institution for the promotion and respect of economic, social and cultural rights of persons of African descent in Costa Rica
- Recommending State
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- Minority rights
- Date modified
- May 27, 2020
111.28
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts towards addressing discrimination against minorities and indigenous people in order to achieve equality for all in society
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- Minority rights
- Date modified
- May 27, 2020
111.103
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Integrate an intercultural perspective into sexual and reproductive health services to guarantee the rights of indigenous, Afrodescendent and migrant women to, among others, dignified treatment during childbirth
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- Minority rights
- Right to health
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- May 27, 2020
111.116
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Promote access to education for minorities by eliminating all obstacles and all structural discrimination against them
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Right to education
- Date modified
- May 27, 2020
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Building on a number of international conventions and instruments, including the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, Costa Rica has pledged to take affirmative action in favour of persons of African descent
- Recommending State
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- International instruments
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Date modified
- May 8, 2020
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Public policies will be promoted to ensure equity and better all-round participation by members of particularly vulnerable groups, including older persons, disabled persons, minors, women and members of ethnic minorities such as Afro-descendants and indigenous people. This includes better political representation, access to posts in institutions and the prohibition of any form of discrimination in the workplace or elsewhere
- Recommending State
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Indigenous peoples
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- May 8, 2020
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen its efforts to improve the socioeconomic situation of minority children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- Minority rights
- Rights of the Child
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt special measures to accelerate the full and equal participation in public and political life of women, including women of African descent, as recommended by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Treaty bodies
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Combat child labour, sexual exploitation and abuse, and further advance strategies to eliminate the discrimination against indigenous, minority children and children of African descent
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- Labour rights
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Rights of the Child
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Integrate programmes and projects aimed at benefiting Afrodescendant populations into different development plans
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt effective measures to improve the socioeconomic status of indigenous women and children as well as of those of African descent
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- Minority rights
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider ways to widen and enhance the effectiveness of measures to promote social inclusion and diversity, guaranteeing the full and effective exercise of human rights by indigenous people, persons of African descent, migrants and refugees, and eradicating all forms of racial discrimination, racism and xenophobia
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
- Indigenous peoples
- Migrants
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Seek to expand its targeted measures to reduce discrimination against persons of African descent and indigenous peoples
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Step up efforts to eliminate discrimination against indigenous children, Afro-descendant children and migrant children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- Migrants
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Rights of the Child
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Intensify efforts to eliminate discrimination against indigenous children, Afro-descendant children, migrant children and children with disabilities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Indigenous peoples
- Migrants
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Rights of the Child
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take effective measures to generate inclusive social practices to ensure the observance of the human rights of indigenous peoples, persons of African descent, migrants and refugees
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
- Indigenous peoples
- Migrants
- Minority rights
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Design awareness-raising campaign on cultural diversity and continue its efforts to end discrimination and xenophobia against minorities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen the measures for indigenous populations and persons of African descent against all forms of discrimination, and ensure their promotion and visibility in society
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Redouble efforts to eliminate discrimination against minority children, including children of African descent and children with disabilities, and improve their socioeconomic conditions as earlier recommended by the Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- ESC rights - general
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Rights of the Child
- Treaty bodies
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Reinforce efforts to eliminate the discrimination against indigenous children, Afro-descendants, migrants and persons with disabilities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Indigenous peoples
- Migrants
- Minority rights
- Rights of the Child
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019