Women Costa Rica
Soccer games in Costa Rica always bring out the passion in Ticos, unfortunately this is not always t...
The First Lady of Costa Rica, Claudia Dobles, held meetings throughout last week with groups in char...
The number of femicides and different forms of violence against women are worrisome. According to...
The emergency service 911 in Costa Rica is receiving in average 268 reports of domestic violence eve...
Through an executive decree signed by President of Costa Rica Luis Guillermo Solis, the government s...
The Handsmaid’s Tale television series based on Margaret Atwood’s influential and acclaimed novel, w...
Pole dance combines dance and acrobatics, it requires a lot of strength, coordination, flexibility and ability and besides being very sexy it is also a great ex...
Problems of coordination and differences in the modalities of care of the National Child Care and Development Network affect the management and quality of the s...
Women killed by their current spouse or partner, or as a result of their female gender such as in a sexual assault, now number 24 so far in 2017 in Costa Rica. ...
Over the past three years, Costa Rica's police force has gone from having 3 percent of female officers to 17 percent as the agency has incorporated a gender per...
Six Nicaraguan women, including a minor, who were sexually exploited in a bar in Upala, Costa Rica, were rescued in mid-September by the Costa Rican Immigration...
A Costa Rican man with the last names Alvarado Leiva, an official at the Costa Rican National Registry (Registro Nacional), was arrested this morning on suspici...
Women in Costa Rica are better educated, but have fewer employment opportunities. This, and the concentration of poverty among women and girls, are some of the ...
All Cen-Cinai programs except for seven will resume services tomorrow, Monday, October 9, said the Ministry of Health this evening, Sunday, October 8, 2017. And...
Article 121 of the Costa Rican Penal Code states that "abortion practiced with the consent of a woman by a doctor or an authorized obstetrician is not punishabl...
Travel Excellence is the first company in Costa Rica to be certified for gender equality in the workplace (a program initialed SIGIG in Costa Rica). The Tech...
The CCSS, which are the initials for Costa Rica's public healthcare system, the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social, is launching an innovative breast cancer pr...
"So, you like milk, baby ... why don't you drink some of mine when I squirt it in your face." This comment from a man in a car passing by is how a University of...
Couples who are lined up to receive in vitro fertilization treatments are unhappy about delays in provision of the service by Costa Rica's public health system....
Costa Rica's public childcare services are rapidly expanding to meet the growing needs of women, especially female heads of households who are undertaking night...
Ninety low-income women in Costa Rica will benefit from a donation of mammograms by the country's most widely read tabloid, Diario Extra, said that paper in a r...
The conditions and particularities of women's work, their additional burdens of reproductive and elder care-taking, as well as the persistent wage gap between m...
The so-called "morning after" pill can be used by women in most of the world as a form of emergency contraception to prevent pregnancy; but so far not legally i...
About 80 representatives from the Costa Rican Social Security Agency (CCSS) will gather later this month to analyze the agency's role in addressing different fo...
One of the main recommendations of a recent report on Costa Rica by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) rela...
The La Cruz Health Area in Costa Rica's northern Guanacaste province has begun providing contracepti...
The concluding observations on the seventh periodic report of Costa Rica by the UN Committee on the ...
The Costa Rican Government and the European Union (EU) signed a joint declaration Tuesday affirming ...
As a region, the Americas has the second-highest number of most women parliamentarians in the world,...
Costa Rica's aging population, together with risk factors that are becoming more common such as smok...
Twenty-one new businesses have agreed to participate in a gender equality and women's economic empow...
Costa Rican women's rights defenders are in Geneva this month to report on the situation of women, a...
Costa Rica is a small country but with big commitments, and one of those is regarding safeguarding t...
The Costa Rican government announced a new nationwide multi-institutional approach to preventing and...
This week Maureen Clarke Clarke, National Liberation Party legislator made a strong statement in the...
After midnight Saturday, a "Breaking Chains" police operation took place in Tamarindo, Guanacaste, a...
In July 1999, 21-year-old Claire McFarlanel was brutally raped and left almost dead in the streets o...
Sunday, a teenage boy and his mother were brought in to the public prosecutor's office in Liberia, G...
In the early morning house of Saturday, April 1, a couple signed into a hotel in downtown San José....