MARRIAGEWith the Civil Union Act in 2006, South Africa passed the first national-level same-sex marriage legislation on the continent. Both proponents and opponents ascribed importance to this legislation based on the idea that it would fundamentally change the institution of marriage. Has the Civil...
A ground-breaking judgment handed down by the Constitutional Court on 1 December 2005 gave parliament 1 year within which to promulgate legislation that facilitated same-sex marriage in South Africa. In response, the Civil Union Act 17 of 2006 came into operation on 30 November 2006. This Act ...
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Each section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, explained Decades later, the Civil Rights Act is still a critical piece of American legislation. Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. What is the history of same-sex marriage? The definition of marriage as a legal and social concept has a lo...
In East Africa, evidence of authoritarian contagion is growing. The governments of Uganda, once seen as a great hope for democracy, and South Sudan, the world’s youngest country and a recipient of hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign assistance, are contemplating restrictive legislation targ...
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As background, before Congress enacted the Defense of Marriage Act (“DOMA“), marital status for federal income tax purposes was defined by state law. Section 3 of DOMA banned same-sex couples from being recognized as “spouses” for all federal law purposes. Windsor ruled Section 3 of ...
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These racial and ethnic minority populations were excluded from civic participation and restricted in immigration and mobility, income and employment, marriage, and more, with substantial health consequences Steckel (1986). Such legal and civic restrictions on the Black slave population continued until ...
Their rights to decide on matters of sexuality, reproduction, partnership, marriage, and parenthood are limited by parental rights, but also affected by ... S Kirsten - 《International Journal of Law Policy & the Family》 被引量: 6发表: 2004年 The Human Rights Act 1998 and the Shared Home...