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Albania's 2021–2027 National Action Plan for LGBTI people runs out next year. An inclusive gender equality law and a hormone therapy guideline got done. Partnership recognition, legal gender recognition and stronger hate crime law did not.
At Archbishop Thabo Makgoba's final Provincial Synod, the Anglican Church of Southern Africa rejected a motion to pray for members in committed same-sex unions by 78 votes to 71. Queer Anglicans say the door is closed for now, but closer to opening than ever.
Five years after Montenegro's same-sex life partnership law took effect, the government has sent Parliament a fast-track package on citizenship, residence, surnames and civil registers. Here's what it would change, and why the EU is driving it.
A new anti-corruption law requires politicians' 'civil partners' to disclose their assets — despite Romania having no legal definition of a civil partnership. LGBTQ+ groups are using the irony to push Parliament toward a real law this September.
The Seoul Central District Court ruled that a same-sex couple formed a legally protectable domestic partnership, ordering a third party to pay damages for breaking it up. It's the latest step in a pattern: South Korean courts keep expanding protections for same-sex couples while marriage equality itself stays just out of reach.
In a landmark ruling, the Philippine Supreme Court held that same-sex partners who build a life and a home together have legal co-ownership of what they paid for — and pointedly told Congress it's long past time to legislate recognition.
The court struck down part of a 1939 fascist-era pension law, ruling that INPS cannot refuse a widow's pension to the surviving spouse of a same-sex couple married in another country before Italy's 2016 civil unions law took effect.
On May 23, 2023, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Romania had violated the rights of 21 same-sex couples by refusing to give their relationships any legal status. Three years on, Romania still has no civil partnership law — and the Council of Europe is running out of patience.
Slovakia's 2025 constitutional amendment locking in two-sex recognition and banning same-sex adoption is now exposed in a way it wasn't a week ago. The EU's Hungary ruling didn't just hit Budapest.
