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Austria will upgrade civil unions for gay couples, but won’t call it ‘marriage’
Partnerships would be registered where marriage records are kept and the spot for “last name” will be changed to “family name.”
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Two ex-nuns just got a civil union in Italy and the media went nuts
The women, one from southern Italy and the other of South American origins, fell in love while working at a rehabilitation center for drug addicts.
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Man who helped lesbian kidnap child from ex-partner goes to trial
Prosecutors allege he helped a woman and her daughter flee the country rather than share custody of the girl with the woman’s former partner.
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Aruba Parliament approves civil unions for same-sex couples
Same-sex couples now have the right to register their unions and receive benefits granted to married people on the Dutch Caribbean island.
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Italy joins rest of Europe in giving rights to gay couples
Italy was the last of the European Union’s 28 nations to grant legal recognition to civil unions.
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Italy Senate OKs civil unions, but LGBT groups angered over adoption snub
Gay and lesbian groups denounced the watered-down legislation as a betrayal because Renzi’s Democratic Party sacrificed a provision to allow same-sex adoption in order to ensure passage.
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Italy: Lower House approves motion on same-sex civil unions
The motion commits the government “to promote the adoption of a law on civil unions, particularly with regard to the condition of the people of same sex”.
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Costa Rica judge grants first openly gay common-law marriage in Central America
Along with being the first legal recognition of a same-sex relationship in Central America, the decision could set an example for judges elsewhere in the country to recognize gay relationships and even adoption.
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Chilean president signs same‑sex civil union law
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet on Monday signed a law that recognizes civil unions between same-sex couples, a sign of change in a country long regarded as one South America’s most socially conservative nations.
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Costa Rica government plans legislation to allow same-sex civil unions
Costa Rica will put forth a plan this week to allow civil unions between same-sex couples in the Central American nation.