Humanitarian Alert: The “Providencia Association” of Las Brisas Community Appeals to the CNU Secretary-General After Five Years of Inaction and Two Child Deaths

Italy – 19 November 2025

The Providencia Association, representative body of the Las Brisas community, a settlement of approximately 1,000 Nicaraguan residents in the district of Cóbano, Costa Rica, has formally appealed to the Secretary-General of the Confederation of Humanitarian Nations (CNU) to request urgent intervention for the protection of basic human rights and essential living conditions.

The appeal denounces a critical situation that has persisted for over five years, during which local authorities of Cóbano allegedly failed to honor repeated promises to convert the only access road to the community into a public road.
Without this official designation, ambulances, fire services, and emergency vehicles cannot legally or physically reach the neighborhood, creating a humanitarian risk that has already had devastating consequences.

According to the Providencia Association, two children have died in recent years due to the impossibility of receiving timely medical assistance. The community warns that unless decisive action is taken, further loss of life remains a concrete risk.

The notification reached the CNU at 18:00 (Italy time) through Sara Romano, CNU Head of Mission for Costa Rica.
Immediately upon receiving the report, Secretary-General Harry Tallarita activated an emergency coordination mechanism with both the Head of Mission and the President of the Providencia Association, who also serves as a Human Rights Defender (HRD) accredited by the CNU.

Secretary-General Tallarita was already present in Costa Rica through his own humanitarian organization. The integration of those initiatives into the CNU framework has significantly increased the Confederation’s local operational capacity, diplomatic weight, and institutional incisiveness, allowing for faster and more structured responses to urgent community needs.

In parallel, the CNU has formally contacted, on an urgent basis, both the Nicaraguan Embassy in Costa Rica and the Nicaraguan Embassy in Italy, requesting an immediate meeting with a CNU diplomatic delegation to present detailed evidence, witness testimonies, and a full humanitarian brief on the case.

The Confederation emphasizes that access to emergency services is a fundamental human right, aligned with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international humanitarian standards. The situation in Las Brisas is now considered a priority case for the CNU’s Humanitarian Rights Defence Division.

Further updates will follow as the CNU continues its on-site assessment and prepares its next steps with local and international authorities.