translated from Spanish: Taiwan approves equal marriage

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Taiwan.-Taiwan made history yesterday by approving by a large majority with 66 votes in favour and 27 against in Parliament the same-sex marriage, which makes it the first country in all of Asia to legalize it.
The approved text was the only bill that also offered limited adoption rights to homosexual couples and the only proposal accepted by activists of the LGTBI movement.
Before the debate and parliamentary vote, thousands of people took to the streets of Taipei and marched to Parliament to ask legislators not to discriminate the same-sex people who want to get married and to vote for equal civil union.
In February, the Taiwanese government introduced a bill that laid the legal basis for same-sex unions without changing the Civil code, in which it did not modify the definition of marriage, as conservative groups demanded, but added a New article for homosexual marriage.
From the human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) assured that “Taiwan has made history in the struggle for equality of LGTBI people.”
The Taiwanese legislature had until May 24 to regularize the situation of same-sex couples after a ruling the Constitutional Court considered in 2017 that the prohibition of homosexual marriage was unconstitutional.
Source: Millenium

Original source in Spanish

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