The Lesbian News Snatch - March 18

By maxime68 on Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 18:45

Denmark is discussing its adoption rights; and though they were the first country allowing same-sex couples to be legal parents of child, current legislation still includes passages that discriminate non straight families.
A discussion on radio channel P1 within in the scope of health, also discussed the topic that everybody including poorer and older couples shouldn’t be deprived of their ground rights to having children.

And in breaking news we learn that the Danish parliament approved a new bill for adoption just yesterday, permitting gay couples the adoption of Danish and foreign kids.

The Scottish Parliament Public Petitions committee will request that the Government reviews the Scottish legislation on marriages. Members of the committee expressed their hope to be able to amend this bill before being forced to do so by a ruling from the European Court of Human Rights.

A new report demanding of the EU to apply rules against discrimination based on sexual orientation, disability etc. was presented this Monday in the European Parliament Kathalijne Buitenweg, member of the Civil Liberties Committee. The report is scheduled for voting on April 2^nd.

Another report will be presented by Thomas Hammarberg, reprimanding the Netherlands. The Netherlands do have extensive rights for homosexuals and laws against discrimination, but there’s always a bailout for those declaring religious arguments, which doesn’t comply with the rules for Equal Treatment.

Kathalijne Buitenweg