COSTA RICAN CONGRESS DISALLOWED CHANGES TO A CURRENT LAW
The Costa Rican Congress disallowed changes to a current
law that would have allowed for telephone interventions in cases related to
the production and distribution of child pornography, trafficking of
children's organs and the sexual exploitation of children. Costa Rica has
been heavily criticised both by the United Nations and NGOs for the growing
levels of sexual exploitation of children in that country. In a recent ABC
news program, the President of Costa Rica, Miguel Angel Rodriguez, stated
that there were "only 20 or 30 children" being sexually exploited in the
whole country.
