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Public employees’ union rejects president’s claim that Costa Rica treats LGBTIQ+ people equally.
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Activists warn of lgbtiq+ rights backsliding; civil registry blocks trans name changes.
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Activists warn Costa Rica has regressed 20 years in LGBTIQ+ rights.
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Civil registry rejects non-binary name changes under an 'arbitrary' criterion.
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President claims Costa Rica is 'up to date' on rights, plans to pull country from UN diversity forums.
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Court unable to serve former president Chaves in damages suit over Pride march declaration.
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President insists on being called “presidente”, not “presidenta”, to reject “gender ideology”.
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Conservative bill seeks to reinstate sex of birth on ID cards.
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Coadyuvancia filed at sala IV to set precedent in INCOFER transphobia case.
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Costa Rica withdraws from OAS LGBTI Core Group.
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Transphobic discrimination at INCOFER railway station.
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Ombudsman warns of escalating gender violence crisis.
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Fundación Arias report: hate crimes against LGBTQ+ community in Costa Rica face data gap and impunity.
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Laura Fernández, now president, signed pact with evangelical political group committing to 'natural family' and ministerial appointments.
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UN report: hate speech against LGBTQ+ surges 344% in one year.
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State censorship of 2025 Pride March closing event.
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Trans women in men's prisons: Isamar Morales's testimony.
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Lawmakers reject trans rights law.
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AMULABI submits report on conversion therapy to UN Universal Periodic Review.
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IACHR holds hearing on Costa Rica's human rights situation.
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Chaves repeals anti-discrimination decree and eliminates LGBTI commissioner.
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Tiffany Ortega Carballo dies, age 42.
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Sala IV rules government violated LGBTIQ+ rights by revoking Pride march declaration.
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Murder of Laisa Camacho, age 56.
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Trans woman excluded from Miss Costa Rica pageant takes case to Sala IV.
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Dayana Hernandez dies, age 40.
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President Fires Officials Over LGBT Pride March Support.
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Murder of Juliana Elizondo.
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Police abuse activists at demonstration.
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President declares he will veto trans rights law.
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Legislators talk against trans rights law.
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Ballots will list candidates by their sex at birth, not gender identity.
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Legislator commemorates biological women, “real women”, on International Women’s Day.
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Legislator declares saying that some men menstruate is disrespectful to real women.
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Legislator asks president to derogate executive orders regarding inclusive language in schools.
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Amusement park denies entrance to transwomen.
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Organizations denounce Costa Rica’s failure to support gender identity.
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President promises education system “far from weird ideologies”.
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Costa Rica sued for denying sex change in civil record.
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Government freezes plan against conversion therapy.
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Transwoman attacked at a restaurant in San José.
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Lawmakers block law project intending to criminalize conversion therapy.
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Religious right performs “conversion therapy” in Costa Rica.
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Hate speech increases 71% in Costa Rica over a year.
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Government institution takes away building from trans rights organization.
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President removes figure of LGBTIQ+ commissioner.
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Government bans celebration of IDAHOBIT.
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Red LACTRANS publishes 5th report on trans issues in the region.
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President committed with pastors to eliminate “gender ideology” when he was a candidate.
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Waiter burned alive.
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Transwoman loses family and job after sex change.
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Violence against trans women in public spaces: Between sexual harassment and transphobia.
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Tati Quirós murdered in Playas del Coco.
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Report: Hate crimes due to sexual orientation and real or perceived gender identity in Costa Rica.
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Interview with trans activist Victoria Rovira.
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Group of men brutally attack trans women, downtown San Jose.
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Police officer breaks in half transwoman’s Id document.
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Trans victims of silcence.
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