The United Nations Children’s Fund together with the University of Costa Rica, presented the VI State of Children and Adolescents in Costa Rica this week. The report highlighted two disturbing facts that are present in the country and they are that the workday for adolescents aged 15 to under 18, exceed the 36 hours that they can work by law can and also that their employers do not provide adequate social security.

National laws and international agreements are very clear in stating...

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This is very good news for all those environmental advocates and bird lovers. The scientist, Javier Chassot, of the Tropical Science Center (CCT by its initials in Spanish) who has been studying green macaws (Ara Ambiguus), considered endangered, for 15 years, announced the news that the population of these birds is growing in Costa Rica .

According to the project that is studying these birds in the northern zone of the country, in 1994 there had been about 200 individuals detected....

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