Archbishop Ieronymos, the head of the Church of Greece, on Thursday failed to back a government bill giving greater rights to gay couples, although he did not directly criticize the draft law either.
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Showing posts with label Civil Rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Civil Rights. Show all posts
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Greek Justice Ministry Posts Draft Bill Extending Civil Partnerships to Same-Sex Couples
The Greek Justice Ministry posted the draft bill that extends civil partnership agreements to same-sex couples but doesn’t allow adoption for pubic consultation. In a statement accompanying the bill, the Ministry said the new law aims to include homosexual couples and correcting “gray areas” of the existing law. “Seven years after the establishment of the civil partnership agreement that excluded same-sex couples and a year and a half after our country was convicted at the European Court of Human Rights, we present a modern institutional framework that regulates partnerships,” the statement said. The Ministry said the bill constitutes a landmark for two reasons: The first is that it lifts discriminations against citizens due to their sexual orientation and allows for institutional recognition of personal relationships, which were far into a gray area of institutional denial, going against the principles of equality, free development of personality and respect for diversity. The second reason, said the Ministry, is the overall improvement of the civil partnership by recognizing family ties between parties, which strengthen it. (source: ana-mpa)
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Greece to grant gay couples right to civil union
Greece's radical-left government on Wednesday proposed a bill to grant same-sex couples the right to a civil union, two years after the European Court of Human Rights condemned the country's existing legislation as discriminatory.
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Greece to grant gay couples right to civil union
Greece's radical-left government on Wednesday proposed a bill to grant same-sex couples the right to a civil union, two years after the European Court of Human Rights condemned the country's existing legislation as discriminatory.
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Friday, May 22, 2015
Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Irish gay marriage, Expedia quits China, Greece still stuck ...
Ireland votes to allow gay marriage. The majority-Catholic country holds a referendum on whether to change the constitution to allow people to marry ...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Supreme Court Judge Calls Same-Sex Union Groundless
Supreme Court judge Charalambos Machairas said unions between same-sex couples are groundless, in a decision addressed to the court’s political department on Monday. The judge said the Supreme Court should sustain a previous ruling by an appeals court nullifying the marriage of two women by the former municipal authority on the island of Tilos in the summer of 2008. The couple challenged the decision by invoking Article 12 of the European Convention of Human Rights, which does not exclude same-sex couples from the right to marry. The European Court of Human Rights has fined Greece in 2013 for failing to protect the rights, including domestic partnerships, of the country’s homosexual community. The same court described that there was discrimination to same-sex couples. Greece and Lithuania are the only EU countries that refuse to grant equal rights to same-sex couples.
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Monday, February 9, 2015
New Greek govt vows to back gay partnership law, following intl court decision and criticism
Greece's new left-wing government has promised to grant same-sex couples legal status, in response to a 2013 international court decision condemning the country for discrimination.
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Thursday, February 5, 2015
Legal Advice: The Rights of Unpaid Workers
Workers still have rights in cash-strapped crisis-plagued Greece
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Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Greek justice minister denounces gay marriage
Haralambos Athanasiou accused of homophobia after saying same-sex unions pose dangers to societyGreece’s justice minister has been accused of homophobia after unequivocally denouncing gay marriage.In an outburst that startled human rights defenders and activists in the country’s increasingly visible LGBT community, the minister, Haralambos Athanasiou, said he was virulently opposed to same-sex marriage as it posed dangers to a society that “respected traditions”. Continue reading...
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Justice minister 'will not discuss' same-sex marriage
Justice Minister Haralambos Athansiou on Tuesday appeared categorically opposed to same-sex marriages, despite the European Court of Human Rights ruling in 2013 that Greece's exclusion of same-sex couples from civil unions was in violation of the European... ...
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Thursday, November 6, 2014
Greek Ombudsman prods gov’t on issue of civil unions for gay couples
The Greek Ombudsman reminded the government on Thursday that it has been a year since the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ordered Greece to extend civil unions to gay couples without any action from Athens. The rights watchdog said that the governme... ...
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Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Child of prominent Greek immigrants embraced civil rights movement
The last of nine children of well- known Greek immigrants on Milwaukee's south side, Brown became an activist in the city's civil rights movement, ...
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Monday, September 8, 2014
Greece gay civil union delay draws protests
About 500 gay rights activists protested outside the Greek parliament in Athens on Friday evening after legislation on civil unions for gay couples was ...
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Sunday, September 7, 2014
Greek laws 'fall short' as racist and homophobic violence surges
Nearly three years after it was first brought to parliament, Greek MPs are poised to pass an anti-discrimination bill which human rights groups say still falls far short of dealing with an epidemic of racist and homophobic violence in the country.
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Saturday, September 6, 2014
Greek Gays Protest Rights Delay
Gay rights protesters gathered outside Greece's Parliament, angry over a delay in allowing unions for same-sex couples. The post Greek Gays Protest Rights Delay appeared first on The National Herald.
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Friday, September 5, 2014
Greece: Gay partnership delay draws protests
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Gay rights protesters have gathered outside Greece's parliament after the government said it would delay legislation allowing civil unions for same-sex couples, despite a recent European court ruling against the country on the issue.
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