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Italy and Japan are the only G7 nations where same-sex marriages are not recognized. [9] In Italy both male and female same-sex sexual activity has been legal since 1890, when a new penal code was promulgated. A civil union law was passed in May 2016, providing same-sex couples with all of the rights of marriage except for joint adoption rights ...
The law provides same-sex couples with most of the rights of marriage with the exception of adoption rights and access to in vitro fertilisation. On 8 March, the Chamber of Deputies' Justice Committee began discussing the bill, and ultimately approved it on 20 April. The Chamber approved the bill on 11 May in a 372–51 vote with 99 abstentions.
Greece had enacted a law in 2008 that established civil unions for opposite-sex couples only. A 2015 law extended partnership rights to same-sex couples. Oliari and Others v Italy (21 July 2015) [6] went further and established a positive obligation upon member states to provide legal recognition for same-sex couples. Italy thus breached the ...
The application of marriage law equally to same-sex and opposite-sex couples has varied by jurisdiction, and has come about through legislative change to marriage law, court rulings based on constitutional guarantees of equality, recognition that marriage of same-sex couples is allowed by existing marriage law, and by direct popular vote, such ...
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Laws that affect LGBT people include, but are not limited to, the following: laws concerning the recognition of same-sex relationships, including same-sex marriage, civil unions, and domestic partnerships; laws concerning same-sex parenting, including same-sex adoption; anti-discrimination laws in employment, housing, education, public ...
Anti-discrimination laws in the provision of goods and services Anti-discrimination laws in all other areas (incl. indirect discrimination, hate speech) Same-sex marriage Gays, lesbians and bisexuals allowed to serve openly in the Gendarmerie Corps and the Pontifical Swiss Guard Access to IVF for lesbians Commercial surrogacy for gay male couples
A new citizens' initiative was started on 29 March 2015 aiming to rescind the new marriage law. The new initiative collected almost 110,000 signatures by 29 September 2015 but it was rejected by the Legal Affairs Committee and later voted down by the full Parliament on 17 February 2017, by 120–48. The new marriage law took effect on 1 March 2017.