Costa Rica – human rights
Chuqi Li
Dr. Elizabeth Lindsey discussed how the change of environment affects human rights and human’s
daily living through her video Ancient Wisdom for a Modern World. There are still few tribes in the world. People
in their tribes still live like an ancient person. Dr. Elizabeth Lindsey used
ancient wisdom to talk about how serious the environmental problems are. The
environmental problems are not only about the climate change and the pollution,
but also affecting the human rights in modern world. Honestly, Costa Rica is a
country in the Central America, which is not modern as the United States. To
compare to the United States, people in Costa Rica also looks like living in
“ancient”. People in Costa Rica enjoy living in nature environment instead of
modern city, just like what Dr. Elizabeth Lindsey discussed in the video. Human
rights are not working perfect all over the world. Every country has something
unfair happens every day.
Human rights always
relate to the politic system. “Costa Rica is a constitutional, multi-party
republic governed by a president and a unicameral legislative assembly directly
elected in multi-party elections every four years.” Every country’s political
has strong decision-making power to control the human rights in the country. “In
2010 voters chose Laura Chinchilla Miranda of the National Liberation Party
(PLN), the country’s first female president, in elections generally considered
free and fair.” Gender inequality is a social problem that relates directly
with human rights. However, the decision for choosing Laura Chinchilla Miranda
to be the president of the country helped the human rights be more fair and
free. It represented that the human rights policy become more and more
important. Costa Rica has strong development recently that may lead the human
rights develop quickly. On the other
hand, Costa Rica just chose their first female president in 2010, which is much
later than other “modern city”. Environmental problems lead the country Costa
Rica to be more “modern” and more developing.
“We now live in a global environment where cultures and civilizations
exist and interact closely with one another. In addition to furthering closer
contacts, this new phenomenon for the people and nations of the world has also
brought tension and conflict in the areas of culture, economics and politics. “
According to the Farish A. Noor’s Beyond Eurocentrism, the interactions between
countries would not really a good thing for a country. He used many cases and
examples in Europe to explain how many countries in Europe thought they were
the best. That would lead the cultural conflicts. If some countries in the
United States develops so quickly, it would easy have this kind of phenomenon
in the United States.
(Thousands marched for Human Rights in Costa Rica)
Even though it
seems that the human rights system integrate in Costa Rica, there are still
some human rights abuse cases. Sometimes the development is just apparent; it
seems like human systems are developing but deeply they aren’t. “Principal human rights abuses reported during
the year included harsh prison conditions and treatment, delays in the judicial
process, and domestic violence against women and children. Other human rights
problems included trafficking in persons, including sex trafficking of
children, and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.”
It happens because of the cultural differences. Costa Rica is a traditional
country; the cultural development could not follow the speed of the development
of the economy and politic. Therefore, people in Costa Rica should be more care
of the human rights and become more free and fair.
Beyond Eurocentrism, Farish A. Noor
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