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Category: Human Rights

Human Rights, Art, Opinion

How to embrace immigration through art

Nov 01, 2022
Some things get started without direction, while internally recognizing the urgency of doing them. Others...
Region, Visuals, Human Rights

Editorial: A diverse voice in Guanacaste

Jun 28, 2022
In 2017, The Voice of Guanacaste published a cover with a gender diversity story for...
Community, Human Rights, Santa Cruz

How an NGO tackles the lack of a school in Brasilito with a single classroom

Jun 09, 2022
This year marks a decade since Brasilito lost its school. The 2012 earthquake damaged it...
Community, Human Rights, Santa Cruz

Brasilito: The community with students who’ve never been to school

Jun 09, 2022
In the mid-morning heat, Santiago sits at the Brasilito bus stop and confesses to...
Human Rights, Special Stories

What’s it like growing up “without papers” in a country that you weren’t born in?

May 22, 2022
One day, Deilyn heard that her father hadn’t sent her to school because...
Region, Human Rights, Special Stories

How Costa Rica Overcomes Anti-Vax Obstacles To Immunize All Its Children

Apr 05, 2022
Doubt or fear is enough to cause people to reject the coronavirus vaccine, even more...
Human Rights, Special Stories

Five signs of xenophobia in Costa Rica

Mar 25, 2022
The first months of the pandemic exacerbated hate speech on social networks in Costa Rica...
Human Rights, Special Stories, Uncategorized

135 women in Guanacaste sought medical attention within 72 hours after rape

Nov 30, 2021
Eva woke up in her bed uncertain of what had happened the night before. She...
Human Rights, Special Stories

Streets: They’re for everyone but are hostile for women

Nov 30, 2021
Cristel was exhausted after finishing her day of work, but she still had a four...
Community, Human Rights, Special Stories, Santa Cruz, Liberia

Women in Guanacaste marched against gender violence

Nov 26, 2021
November 25 is becoming increasingly relevant in the streets of Guanacaste. Yesterday dozens of women...
Human Rights, Special Stories

Sexual cyberviolence: When violence shows up on girls’ screens

Nov 25, 2021
When Jimena was 14 years old, she wanted to disappear from the world. She was...
News, Human Rights, Special Stories

Sexual violence terrorizes us in Guanacaste

Nov 25, 2021
At The Voice of Guanacaste, we put together a new edition to raise our voices...
Human Rights, Special Stories

A rapist under your roof: When the abuser is your mate

Nov 23, 2021
And it wasn’t my fault, not where I was nor how I was...
Region, Human Rights

Guanacaste high schools fight student exclusion with bicycles

Oct 28, 2021
The Tejedores de Sueños Foundation donated 117 bicycles to five schools in Guanacaste to...
Ilustracion sobre Educación y movilización
Region, Police News, Human Rights

Guanacaste registers another femicide, for the second consecutive month

Oct 13, 2021
Francis Leon Miranda was 25 years old, seven months pregnant, with a three-year-old...
Region, Human Rights

Where can you go for help after a sexual assault in Guanacaste?

Sep 30, 2021
Five female tourists reported being sexually assaulted at evening parties on the beaches of Nosara...
Nosara, Human Rights, Special Stories

5 women report sexual assaults at evening parties in Nosara

Sep 30, 2021
Warning: This in-depth report describes scenes that may be disturbing. Valeria says that she...
COVID-19, Human Rights

Costa Rica doesn’t have COVID-19 vaccines allotted for undocumented migrants in the country, says the Ministry of Health

Jul 22, 2021
Costa Rica doesn’t have COVID-19 vaccines available to immunize people with an irregular...
Human Rights, Special Stories

Heads Up High: Stories of Pride and Diversity

Jun 28, 2021
At seven years old, Mich Coronado loved playing soccer with their dad in the plaza...
News, Human Rights, The Voice Explains

Seven keys to understanding the new wave of arrests of political opponents in Nicaragua

Jun 17, 2021
In the last two weeks, the government of Nicaragua arrested at least 16 opponents of...
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