NEWS:

” Costa Rica receives recognition for its fight to prevent statelessnes persons”

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” Costa Rica grants for the first time citizenship to a person without nationality of any country”

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Many indigenous children and youth of the Ngöbe Buglé community born in Costa Rica to Panamanian parents – known locally as Chiriticos – have had difficulties obtaining their birth certificates, since they were not registered at birth. Their nationality is undetermined, and in some cases they may even be at risk of statelessness.