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Costa Rica

Costa Rica. JUNIOR MODEL UNITED NATIONS 2008-2009. Anatolia College of Thessaloniki Costa Rica Delegation. The symbol of the country. Toucans

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Costa Rica

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  1. Costa Rica

  2. JUNIOR MODEL UNITED NATIONS 2008-2009 Anatolia College of ThessalonikiCosta Rica Delegation

  3. The symbol of the country • Toucans belong to the family of Ramphastidae. They are brightly marked and have large, colorful bills. The family includes five genera and about forty different species. This bird is what characterizes the country and we have chosen it since it’ s extremely beautiful and rare.

  4. Where Costa Rica is in the world • Costa Rica is located in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the east and south, the Pacific Ocean to the west and south and the Carribean Sea to the east.

  5. The area of Costa Rica is 51,100 sq. Km. • Its capital city is San Jose with a population of 2.1 million in the greater metropolitan area. • Other major cities outside the San Jose capital area are Puntarenas, Limon, and Liberia. • Costa Rica is a democratic republic

  6. Our main resources

  7. Major problems • Unemployment • Domestic Violence • Rising Domestic Drug Consumption • Child Prostitution • Child Labor • Criminality • Discrimination Against Women • The Environment

  8. Our key issues in the Special Conference • Discrimination in: gender age religion cultural traditions

  9. The important committees for us are: • Special Conference on Discrimination • Human Rights • The Environment

  10. This is what we most want to achieve at this conference • We want to show that our country, despite being rather unknown to the European community, has the same major problems as the more economically developed and important countries of the world.

  11. Sources: • http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/americas/costa_rica.gif • http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2019.htm • http://members.aol.com/MJ232345/defcr.html • http://www.hri.org/docs/USSD-INCSR/95/CMCA/CostaRica.html

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