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COSTA RICA (North America)


Website: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/cs.html

Date of Last Update: 03-30-2008

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World Factbook of Criminal Justice Systems


Corrections

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The International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief


INTERNATIONAL TREATIES AND AGREEMENTS IMPACTING ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE

TreatySignedRatified
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings Yes No
United Nations Convention against Corruption Yes No
Convention on Offenses and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft No Yes
Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft Yes Yes
Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Civil Aviation Yes Yes
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents No Yes
International Convention against the taking of hostages No Yes
Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts of Violence at Airports Serving International Civil Aviation, Supplementary to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Civil Aviation Yes Yes
Convention on the Marking of Plastic Explosives for the Purpose of Detection Yes No
OAS Convention to Prevent and Punish the Acts of Terrorism Taking the Forms of Crimes Against Persons and Related Extortion that are of International Significence Yes Yes
Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971 No Yes
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988 No Yes
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism Yes Yes
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide No Yes
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime Yes Yes
Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunitions, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime Yes Yes
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime Yes Yes
Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Yes Yes


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Joined UN 2 Nov 1945

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