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Costa Rica


Status of International legal instruments (signatory, ratification): See treaty body sites: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/Pages/TreatyBodies.aspx

  • International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights – 29 Nov 1968
  • Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women – 04 Apr 1986 
  • International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination – 16 Jan 1967
  • Convention on the Rights of the Child – 21 Aug 1990
  • ILO Convention concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries (169) – 02 Apr 1993
  • United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples  – Yes