The country is a party to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities since 2008.
According to the 2011 national census 10.5% of Costa Rican's have a disability, 52% of them are female and 48% male.
[1] Costa Rica signed the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on 30 March 2007 and ratified the treaty on 1 October 2008.
This law also promotes that public places and transport should have facilities that enable people with disabilities to access them.
[3] The political party Accessibility without Exclusion (Partido de Acceso Sin Exclusión) has disability rights as a major policy,[4] the party's president and, as of the 2014 general election, only member of the Legislative Assembly is Óscar López.