Number | Date added | Template | Cycle | Session | State under Review | Recommendation | Recommending State | Action Category | Response | Issues |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Voluntary Pledge | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | 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 | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Voluntary Pledge | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Costa Rica will continue to adopt new international human rights and humanitarian law instruments, such as the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and the Convention on Cluster Munitions. It will also follow up on the appropriate implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Continue efforts to provide improved assistance to victims of trafficking | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Continue taking efficient measures to eliminate prohibited child labour and prostitution, and to combat the phenomenon of children living in the street, and monitor appropriately the efficiency of measures taken | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Continue to improve the judicial system | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Create programmes to combat traditional attitudes that treat sexual and psychological abuse as misdemeanours and continue to provide necessary services and support to victims | 4 - General action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Design and implement its action plan for strengthening legal and institutional frameworks to combat racism and racial discrimination, ensuring that all legal provisions are fully applied, that racism and racial discrimination are actively monitored and that training is carried out for all relevant authorities to provide equal access to legal redress for all victims of crime | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Ensure effective implementation of the provisions punishing acts of torture | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Ensure sufficient resources for effective functioning of its national preventive mechanism provided for in the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment OP-CAT and further strengthen mechanisms for independent investigation of alleged cases of torture and for effective access of victims to remedies with special attention to protection of women, children and persons of minority sexual orientation or gender identity | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Establish a periodical review process of Costa Rica's laws and practices so as to eradicate all forms of discrimination against women, both de facto and de jure, in accordance with its internationally acquired commitments | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Establish an effective and inclusive process to follow-up to the recommendations emerging from the universal periodic review | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Follow through and expand on already established programmes to protect children | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Follow up on the recommendations of the Human Rights Committee and the Committee against Torture relating to pre-trial detention and detention of non-citizens | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Pursue its efforts in favour of gays, lesbians and transsexuals | 2 - Continuing action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Pursue its efforts to ensure the right to an adequate standard of living for vulnerable groups | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Ratify the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Reinforce the fight against exploitation of minors, particularly sexual exploitation, through the effective implementation of national and international legal provisions and through maximal use of the National Plan to Combat Commercial Sexual Exploitation | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Review legislation and practice on the protection of human rights of asylum- seekers with a view to ensuring effective access to appeal against negative decisions of the Visa and Refugee Commission and upholding of the principle of non-refoulement | 3 - Considering action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Share its experience with other countries that may equally wish to make progress in providing for more efficient legal frameworks in the fight against domestic violence | 1 - Minimal action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Strengthen its policies on protection of minors against child labour and sexual exploitation | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Strengthen gender equality policies with a view to narrowing the gender gap in all areas of society | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Take appropriate measures to address the disparities in access to safe drinking water and sanitation between the rural and urban areas, paying particular attention to persons belonging to vulnerable and marginalized groups | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Consider implementing, as appropriate, the recommendations of UNHCR, human rights treaty bodies and special procedures with respect to asylum-seekers, immigrants and irregular immigrants, especially children | 3 - Considering action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Consider including in its criminal legislation the delinquent conducts provided for in relevant paragraphs of article 4 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination ICERD, in line with the recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | 3 - Considering action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Consider ratifying ICRMW | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Expeditiously take appropriate steps towards restricting the use of pretrial detention and its duration and opt for alternative methods whenever possible | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Expand access to drinking water to marginalized and vulnerable populations | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Finalize the fifth and sixth due reports to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, without further delay | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Further reinforce measures to combat trafficking of women and children, as well as penalties commensurate with the seriousness of such acts | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Implement and enforce the changes to the Criminal Code which criminalize all forms of trafficking and raise prison sentences for anyone committing the offense of trafficking in persons | 4 - General action | Supported |
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