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October 10, 2018

New Americas Treaty Boosts Environmental Rights

A new treaty to deepen the link between environmental protection and human rights in Latin America and the Caribbean has the potential to reduce the conflicts that lead to the murders of so many environmental defenders in the region.

Environment

October 10, 2018 Commentary

New Americas Treaty Boosts Environmental Rights

Marcos Orellana
Director, Environment and Human Rights Division

Published In: El País
Environment

September 28, 2018 Dispatches

Costa Rica Launches Initiative on Environment and Human Rights

Marcos Orellana
Director, Environment and Human Rights Division
LGBT Rights

In June, Costa Rica’s president signed a directive and decree ordering government agencies that issue official documents to recognize gender identity based on self-declaration.

August 8, 2018 Commentary

Costa Rica Joins Global Push to Recognize Legal Gender Self-Identification

José Miguel Vivanco
Executive Director, Americas Division

Published In: La Nación

Reports More Reports

March 10, 2004

CAFTA's Weak Labor Rights Protections: Why the Present Accord Should be Opposed

A Human Rights Watch Briefing Paper, March 2004

News

April 4, 2018 Dispatches

Marriage Equality, Transgender Rights Might be on the Horizon in Costa Rica
February 6, 2018 Commentary

Latin America Could Lead the Way for LGBT Rights in 2018

Daniel Berezowsky Ramirez
Intern, LGBT Rights Program

Published In: Proceso
January 24, 2018 Commentary

For LGBT Rights, 2018 Will Be the Year of the Courts

Neela Ghoshal
Senior Researcher, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program

Published In: The Advocate
June 2, 2016 News Release

OAS: Save Human Rights Body
April 4, 2016 Letter

Costa Rica: Letter to President Luis Guillermo Solís on Marriage Equality
September 3, 2014 News Release

Cluster Munitions Ban: National Laws Needed
April 21, 2008 News Release

Costa Rica: Turn Mario Uribe Over to Colombia
July 26, 2005 Commentary

DR-CAFTA Falls Short on Workers’ Rights
July 31, 2003 Commentary

The Right Way to Trade
July 31, 2003 Commentary

The Right Way to Trade
April 25, 2003 News Release

U.N. Rights Body In Serious Decline

Daily Brief

April 7, 2020

Coronavirus is the "new terrorism"; Asia's overcrowded prisons at grave risk of COVID-19 outbreaks; rights risks to older people in coronavirus response; no "social distancing" possible for refugees crammed into camps in Greece; Gulf countries to put a hold on deportations; concerns over South Africa's response; Afghanistan should prosecute head of ISIS-linked group for war crimes; the UN fails to name Russia for bombings in Syria; and is Europe finally seeing some light at the end of the dark pandemic tunnel?