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Italy has recognised civil unions since 5 June 2016, providing same-sex couples with most of the legal protections, benefits and rights of marriage.A bill to this effect was approved by the Senate on 25 February 2016 and by the Chamber of Deputies on 11 May.
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 ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
They bought an old house in a pretty Italian town to save their marriage. Now Christina and Pete Sobolev are working together to help revive dying Italian villages.
[89] [90] The law within the Faroe Islands went into effect on 1 July 2017, after the ratification formality by both the Danish Parliament and royal assent. A bill to legalise civil unions for same-sex couples in Italy was approved on 11 May 2016 by the Parliament of Italy. The law was signed by the President on 20 May 2016. [91]
342 – The first law against pretended same-sex marriage was promulgated by the Christian emperors Constantius II and Constans. [ 16 ] 390 – In the year 390, the Christian emperors Valentinian II , Theodosius I and Arcadius declared homosexual sex to be illegal and those who were guilty of it were condemned to be burned alive in front of the ...