translated from Spanish: Egalitarian Marriage: Fundación Iguales turned to the Comptroller’s

This Monday the Fundación Iguales filed an application with the Comptroller’s Office to rule on the amendment to the National Plan of Human Rights, and that affects the draft egalitarian marriage. Last week the Minister of Justice and DD. HH., Hernán Larraín, announced that the government will not support this initiative, which seeks to modify various legal bodies, including the Civil Code, to allow same-sex couples to be married. Until Teatinos 56 came the executive president of Fundación Iguales, Juan Enrique Pi, the member of the board of the organization, Alessia Injoque and the legal director, Jorge Lucero.The request entered points to the non-compliance of the government with its international commitment to promote access to civil marriage for same-sex couples. Pi stated that “the government cannot unilaterally modify the state’s international human rights obligations, unless the Comptroller himself said that the Amicable Settlement Agreement (ASA) was binding. The Government’s effort to maintain discrimination against same-sex couples has to have limits, and we hope that the Comptroller’s Office will be clearly established.” The ASA is an advent reached by the State of Chile with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), after being sued by the Movilh, for the Government’s refusal to allow same-sex couples to enter into civil marriage. It should be recalled that the Movilh announced last Thursday that it will denounce the State of Chile to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) for this same situation. This day from La Moneda, the spokesperson, Cecilia Pérez, recalled that the initiative is not supported by the Executive, after the Constitution, Legislation, Justice and Senate Regulations Committee put the debate on the Project.

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