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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 Studios in Costa Rica
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...
Costa Rican Child Care Programs Criticized for Lack of Universal Access
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...
Femicides in Costa Rica This Year Leave 18 Orphaned
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. ...
Costa Rica’s Police Force Now Includes 17% Women
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...
6 Sex Slaves Freed in Northern Costa Rican; 2 Police Officers Nabbed for Human Smuggling
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...
Costa Rican Woman Receives Death Threats From State Employee Who Hacked Her WhatsApp
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 and Girls in Costa Rica Suffer From Disproportionate Inequality and Poverty
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 Except 7 Child and Infant Nutrition Centers Reopening in Costa Rica
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...
Women’s Access to Abortion in Costa Rica Stalled, Health Activists Launch Campaign
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...
Costa Rica’s Travel Excellence: A Travel Agency With Gender Conscience
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...
Costa Rica Invests Over $15M in Breast Cancer Prevention Program
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...
Costa Rican University Student Sexually Harassed on Street, Says Problem is Systemic
"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 Demand Answers From Costa Rica’s Health Head on Fertilization Treatment Delays
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 Triples Evening Public Childcare Services
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...
Costa Rican Tabloid ‘Diario Extra’ Donates 90 Mammograms
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...
Retirement Plans in Costa Rica Need to Consider Women’s Reality and Gender Dynamics
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...
Will the Morning-After Emergency Contraception Pill Finally Be Available in Costa Rica?
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...
Costa Rican Health Officials to Analyze Violence Prevention Strategies
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...
United Nations Asks Costa Rica to Speed up Availability of Fertility Treatments
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....
