Europe rights chief says all states must approve same-sex unions
by Nick Duffy, Pink News:
A senior European diplomat has directed that all European countries must move towards allowing same-sex unions.
The Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, the Latvian-American Nils Muižnieks, outlined his view in a report today.
In it, he draws on existing international human rights protections to assert that the 47 member states of the Council of Europe must all provide protections same-sex couples.
He wrote: “The 20 member states of the Council of Europe that still do not provide any legal recognition to same-sex couples should enact legislation to create – at the very least – registered partnerships that ensure that privileges, obligations or benefits available to married or registered different-sex partners are equally available to same-sex partners.
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