This e-team focusses on discussing the work of Costa Rica's Judicial Branch which established a unique institutional policy in 2015 to improve Afrodescendant access of the judiciary system. The policy covers, in particular, the promotion of Afrodescendant human rights, the sensitising of officials to the needs of the Afrodescendant population in Costa Rica, and the promotion of capacity building.

The e-team wiill discuss the way in which such a unique policy was developed so as to potentially replicate such a policy elsewhere as needed.