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Finland : Second vote approval of gender-neutral marriage bill
The Finnish Parliament passed a citizens’ initiative-based bill to allow same-sex marriage in a second vote on Friday .
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Finland : Majority of party leaders would support gay marriage
A narrow majority of Finland’s political party leaders say they’d support an amendment to marriage laws to allow same-sex couples solemnise their unions. During an Yle election programme Wednesday evening five political chiefs said they would support gender neutral marriage; three pledged that they would oppose the measure.
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Strasbourg ruling: divorce requirement for legal gender recognition ‘no violation of Human Rights’
Yesterday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that the divorce requirement for people who wish to change their legal gender and are married, is not a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights. European Court of Human RightsThe Strasbourg based Court analysed the case of Finnish national Ms Hämäläinen, who was born male and married to a woman. After undergoing gender reassignment surgery in 1996, she wished to bring her official documents in line with her new gender.
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Archbishop Mäkinen of Finland says sorry to LGBT persons
At the opening of SuomiAreena on Monday asked the Lutheran Church Archbishop Kari Mäkinen homosexuals and other sexual minorities for forgiveness for the way they have been treated.
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New Report Documents Discrimination Faced by Transgender People in Europe
Today Amnesty International launched the groundbreaking report, The state decides who I am: lack of legal recognition for transgender people in Europe.
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Europe: Transgender people face discrimination and inhuman and degrading treatment
European countries are violating the human rights of people trying to change their legal gender, said Amnesty International in a report published today. It details how transgender people are forced to undergo invasive surgery, sterilization, hormone therapy, psychiatric testing before they can change their legal status.