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Category: Human Rights

Nicoya, Human Rights

35 Nicoyan women try to break down social and technological barriers

Feb 10, 2021
For four months, women with disabilities and caregivers attended a comprehensive virtual empowerment training workshop ...
Community, Human Rights, Health

How does your municipality spend its budget and award work contracts?

Jan 06, 2021
The Voice of Guanacaste launched two interactive tools today that will allow people to analyze...
Community, COVID-19, Human Rights, Health

200 people in Los Andes, La Cruz don’t have drinking water during the pandemic

Jan 04, 2021
GuanaData, a project of The Voice of Guanacaste, investigates the public budgets of six municipalities...
Nicoya, Human Rights, Politics

Legal loopholes allow family members to work at municipalities despite potential conflicts of interest

Dec 21, 2020
GuanaData, a project of The Voice of Guanacaste, investigates the public budgets of six municipalities...
Human Rights, Special Stories

Five stats on violence experienced by women in Guanacaste

Dec 10, 2020
    Bertilia hung between life and death while Santa Cruz was ringing in the...
Community, Human Rights, Economy

Puntarenas Municipality and administration didn’t use budgets for 15 bridges in the last 7 years

Dec 09, 2020
GuanaData, a project of The Voice of Guanacaste, investigates the public budgets of six municipalities...
Human Rights, Special Stories

Adriana built a path of books to escape violence at home

Dec 03, 2020
A young woman from Guanacaste was able to leave a violent home thanks to studying...
Illustration: Dunkan Harley
Human Rights, Special Stories, Santa Cruz

Living in fear after reporting domestic violence: gaps in protecting women

Dec 03, 2020
    Every time she leaves her house, she carries her cell phone in her...
Kerem Fonseca
Human Rights, Special Stories, Santa Cruz

A heroine from Santa Cruz rewrites her story after surviving an attempted femicide

Dec 01, 2020
Bertilia sleeps sitting up on an old couch in her living room, with her feet...
Human Rights, Special Stories

At home, women perform an unmanageable juggling act

Nov 23, 2020
While giant steps have been taken toward achieving equality in the workplace, the same hasn ...
Region, Human Rights

Court to retry femicide of Mariana Leiva more than 2 years after her death

Oct 23, 2020
The femicide of Mariana Leiva will be retried next Monday, October 26, this time in Leiva was from Liberia and graduated with a degree in industrial engineering from the Technological...
Nicoya, COVID-19, Human Rights, Health

Municipality of Nicoya holds onto cemetery construction budget for eight years; Land allocated is in protected area

Oct 13, 2020
GuanaData, a project of The Voice of Guanacaste, investigates the public budgets of six municipalities...
Region, COVID-19, Human Rights

Minorities with HIV face difficulties receiving treatment during the pandemic

Sep 21, 2020
Since the pandemic hit Costa Rica, Manuel Agüero, coordinator of the HIV Project of...
Community, Life & Health, Human Rights

Mayor of Limon has promised an exclusive clinic for the elderly during three campaigns. Building it is illegal

Sep 18, 2020
In 2013, Nestor Mattis assured six associations of senior citizens that he would build a...
COVID-19, Human Rights

Overcrowding Hits Guanacaste Women Harder. This Is How They Are Affected in the Middle of the Pandemic

Sep 09, 2020
67% of overcrowded homes in the Chorotega Region have women as the head of household ...
News, Human Rights, Liberia

Family members condemn feminicide of elderly Nicaraguan woman in Guanacaste

Sep 07, 2020
Justina Galo Urtecho sold lottery tickets in the Martina Bustos neighborhood in Liberia. She also...
COVID-19, Human Rights, Special Stories

The unpunished femicide of Darys Mora, the deepest wound of a cross border town

Jul 28, 2020
San Vicente, a forgotten community on the Costa Rican-Nicaraguan border, found Darys Mora strangled...
COVID-19, Human Rights

Silvio and Teresa: Nicaraguans who heal and teach during the pandemic

Jul 23, 2020
In classrooms, hospitals and orchards, there are Nicaraguans fighting alongside us to get out of ...
Human Rights, Special Stories

VIDEO: Here’s what we can do to cut back xenophobia towards Nicaraguans in Costa Rica

Jul 14, 2020
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, rejection of Nicaraguan migrants has exacerbated. Two experts explain why and ...
COVID-19, Human Rights, Special Stories

Pandemic at the Border: When Working and Living is Outlawed

Jul 07, 2020
COVID-19 has drawn a hard and fast line across a previously porous border, and...
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