Vermont became the first state to grant marriage-equivalent rights to same-sex couples through civil unions in 2000. The Vermont Supreme Court's decision in Baker v.

Civil partnerships were introduced in the UK back in 2005, before marriage was made available for same-sex and LGBTQ+ couples (which happened in England, Wales, and Scotland in 2014, and in ...

The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department has announced that over 10,000 civil marriage applications were submitted by foreigners to ...

Over 10,000 civil marriage applications from foreigners were submitted to the Civil Family Court in Abu Dhabi during the ...

Those are our civil rights, which civil society must recognize, much as we recognize civil society’s right to define civil marriage as it wills. These rights of the church are worth fighting for.

Greece has become the first Orthodox Christian country to legalize same-sex civil marriage, despite opposition from Church officials. A cross-party majority of 176 lawmakers in the 300-seat ...

“It’s very important to us that Israel would be pluralistic,” Lapid said. Civil marriage would not be the first religious pluralism fray that the Jewish Federations has entered.

Marriage in this country is a civil right. It affords couples thousands of civil, financial and social benefits.

The ban on civil marriage has been in force since 1953, five years after Israel was founded. The issue cuts to the heart of Israel's existential dilemma, its difficulties in striving to be both a ...