User:Yaritzalopez/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?

 * 1) Immigration to Costa Rica
 * 2) Human rights in Costa Rica

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?

 * 1) I chose this article because my organization, Viva Nicaragua! Center for Social Justice has community projects that support rural development and immigrant and refugee social and economic integration of individuals from Nicaragua to Costa Rica.
 * 2) I chose this article because once I begin my practice experience I will be working closely with the children and women's groups to facilitate projects and activities such as talks about self-care or helping them start their own medicinal plant gardens. One of the important things to learn about is the rights that women and children have and are being upheld in Costa Rica.

Evaluate the article

 * 1) Skimming the article it seems that the data needs to be updated because it's currently based off the 2011 census. Since I'm paying close attention to the migration of Nicaraguans into Costa Rica, it would be useful to have more than just stats. We know that Nicaraguans are one of the most popular foreign groups that immigrate to the country so it would be helpful to provide more information on why that is or if there was a specific movement that caused for the numbers to increase. The article provides detailed sections on diverse immigrant groups and in-depth analysis on the social and political implications for their migration to Costa Rica. There needs to be an update on the demographic statistics and recent immigration trends, small sections of bias when discussing the role of immigrants in the country or how the governments worked to integrate them, quite a few sections also have '[citations needed]' which is crucial to strengthen the article's credibility.
 * 2) For the section of refugee rights, similar to what I mentioned before, we know that refugees are predominantly from Nicaragua so providing more context as to why there's been an increase or if there's been a change in upholding their rights to work, etc. The article covers various aspects of human rights in Costa Rica while discussing the framework and international commitments. Areas for improvement include updating the information especially when it comes to LGBT rights post-2020, providing more in-depth analysis with the evolution of human rights or legal changes, and the sentence structure. The article does great at maintaining a neutral tone and being well-organized with no grammatical mistakes, however there are sentences that could benefit from being rephrased when it comes to explaining the law. An introductory sentence seems to be lacking though because there is no clear sentence stating the article's topic.