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<b>International human rights documents:</b><br />
The Netherlands has ratified <a href="http://www.humanrights.coe.int/Prot12/Protocol%2012%20and%20Exp%20Rep.htm" target="_blank">Protocol No. 12 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms</a>, moreover The Netherlands was a signatory to the <a href="http://www.ilga-europe.org/europe/issues_themes/beyond_europe/united_nations/joint_statement_on_sexual_orientation_gender_identity_and_human_rights_at_united_nations_2007" target="_self">2007 UN Declaration on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity</a>.<br />
The national Parliament of The Netherlands has endorsed the <a href="http://www.yogyakartaprinciples.org/" target="_blank">Yogyakarta Principles</a>.<br />
<b>Criminal law:</b><br />
Consenting same-sex sexual acts are legal.<br />
The age of consent is equal for all sexual acts.<br />
<b>Anti-discrimination:</b><br />
Discrimination on the basis on sexual orientation is prohibited in areas of health care, education, access to good and services and housing.<br />
<b>Partnership recognition:</b><br />
In The Netherlands same-sex couples are able to marry or enter into a registered partnership. It also provides registered cohabiting same-sex couples with a set of limited rights.<br />
<b>Parenting rights:</b><br />
Same-sex couples are eligible to jointly apply for a child adoption and each other’s biological children. <br />
Medically assisted insemination is available to lesbian couples.<br />
<b>Law on hate and violence:</b><br />Laws on hate and violence do not refer to sexual orientation or gender identity and do not recognise sexual orientation neither gender identity as aggravating factor. </p>

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