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LGL partialy wins a court case on Baltic Pride 2013
Lithuanian Gay League (LGL) today partialy won their appeal against the decision of the Vilnius City Municipality not to allow the upcoming Baltic Pride march to be held on Gediminas Avenue, the main street of Vilnius. Vilnius Regional Administrative Court ruled that the decision of the Municipality was not legal. The organizers of Baltic Pride and the Municipality must now restart the process of negotiating the location for the Baltic Pride march.
Uruguay Senate Approves Same-Sex Marriage Bill
Uruguay’s Senate today voted overwhelmingly in favor of marriage equality. The Senate voted 23-8 in favor of the same-sex marriage bill. Uruguay’s lower house passed the bill in December of last year. The lower house is expected to approve modifications to the bill in the coming weeks. President Jose Mujica has already expressed his plans to sign the bill into law. If approved, Uruguay will follow Argentina as the second nation in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide. [Human Rights Campaign Report]
The European Parliament wants to outlaw homophobic crime and speech in the EU
Today the European Parliament adopted a non-binding resolution on strengthening the fight against racism, xenophobia and hate crime. The text calls on the European Commission to add homophobia and transphobia to the list of EU-sanctioned hate speech and violence. Viviane Reding, Vice-President of the European Commission in charge of Justice, discussing the resolution Since a 2008 Framework Decision, the European Union foresees specific, higher penalties for racist and xenophobic speech and crime.
German Constituional Court on adoption rights
(19 February 2013) LSVD (Lesbian and Gay Federation in Germany) welcomes the positive judgement of the Federal Constitutional Court. The judgement made public today strenghtens the rights of children in same-sex families. From now on, adopted children in rainbow families finally have the same rights as children in heterosexual families. We demand legislators to dispose of remaining disparities in adoption law. This can be effected fast and unbureaucratically by repealing the ban on joint adoption which is now possible via sucessive adoption in two steps anyway.
Denmark again leads the way
The Danish government is in front when it comes to the recognition of rainbow families In Denmark a lot of lesbians, gays and bisexuals establish their own families. But so far the legal rights of those families have been very bad.
