Politics of Union

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Japan: NGO offers same-sex 'partnership certificates' to address gaps in current provision

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About 20 companies in Japan will start accepting “partnership certificates,” issued to same-sex couples by a nongovernmental organization, from July as a way of providing employees with spousal and familial benefits that are available to straight married couples, people familiar with the matter said Saturday.

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UKraine: LGBT+ group sues religious figure linking coronavirus to gay marriage

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A Ukrainian LGBT+ group said on Monday it has sued one of the country's most prominent religious figures over comments blaming the spread of the coronavirus on same-sex marriage, in what the group said was the first such case in ex-Soviet nation.

Bosnia Herzegovina: Gov't shifts to practical support for addressing same-sex couples' rights

The Government of the Federation of BiH appointed the members of the Inter-ministerial Working Group to analyze the regulations under which same-sex couples in the living community may exercise their rights under the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, and propose regulations to be adopted in the Federation of BiH.

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These South Korean women went abroad to get married. Then one spoke out at home, and the backlash began.

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Kim Kyu-jin doesn't describe herself as an activist. That's a label that tends to scare people in South Korea's conformist society. She sees herself as just a working woman who wanted to get married to the person she loves.