Over 1,180 same-sex couples enter partnership since 2006
04/08/2011
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Original article: http://praguemonitor.com/2011/08/...me-sex-couples-enterpartnership-2006
Prague, Aug 2 (CTK) - A total of 1181 same-sex couples have concluded registered partnership in the Czech Republic in the first five years since the the law on registered partnership came into force on July 1, 2006, the Colourplanet.cz server has reported, referring to registry offices.
Eighty-nine couples terminated the partnership from July 2006 till the end of June, 2011.
In the first half of this year, 70 couples of gays and lesbians entered into partnership and 23 couples broke up.
Activists from homosexual organisations had been striving for the legalisation of same-sex partnership since the 1990s. They succeeded for he fifth time even though President Vaclav Klaus vetoed the bill. However, the Chamber of Deputies outvoted him.
The law on registered partnership provides for the right to information on the health condition of the registered partners and a chance to inherit property just as married couples. It also counts with the mutual obligation to pay maintenance.
However the law does not enable same-sex couples to adopt children.
The server recalls that the Czech Republic has been the first post-communist country to legalise same-sex partnership.
In the first five years, 831 gay couples and 350 lesbian couples entered into partnership. In 126 cases, one of the partners was a foreigner, most frequently from the neighbouring Slovakia.
This year, 45 gay and 25 lesbian couples were registered and one of the partners was from abroad in ten cases.
Out of the total of 89 couples that terminated their partnership, 42 were female and 47 male couples.
In the first half of 2011, 15 couples of gays and 8 of lesbians broke up.
The first same-sex couple in the Czech Republic to conclude registered partnership were cook Josef, then 26, and railway worker Karel, 42. They did so in Ostrava, north Moravia, on July 1, 2006, the same day when the law came into force.
The first lesbian partnership was also concluded in Ostrava by shop assistant Stepanka, then 30, and baker Vendulka, 27.
After same-sex partnership was legalised in the Czech Republic, the Gay Initiative organisation, which was pushing for the law, along with other groups, terminated its work.
Another homosexual association, the Platform for Equality, Recognition and Diversity (PROUD), was established recently. It wants to strive for homosexuals' right to conclude marriages and adopt children.
The PROUD activists also criticise the fact that the new draft civil code totally ignores the existence of same-sex partnerships.
Prague, Aug 2 (CTK) - A total of 1181 same-sex couples have concluded registered partnership in the Czech Republic in the first five years since the the law on registered partnership came into force on July 1, 2006, the Colourplanet.cz server has reported, referring to registry offices.
Eighty-nine couples terminated the partnership from July 2006 till the end of June, 2011.
In the first half of this year, 70 couples of gays and lesbians entered into partnership and 23 couples broke up.
Activists from homosexual organisations had been striving for the legalisation of same-sex partnership since the 1990s. They succeeded for he fifth time even though President Vaclav Klaus vetoed the bill. However, the Chamber of Deputies outvoted him.
The law on registered partnership provides for the right to information on the health condition of the registered partners and a chance to inherit property just as married couples. It also counts with the mutual obligation to pay maintenance.
However the law does not enable same-sex couples to adopt children.
The server recalls that the Czech Republic has been the first post-communist country to legalise same-sex partnership.
In the first five years, 831 gay couples and 350 lesbian couples entered into partnership. In 126 cases, one of the partners was a foreigner, most frequently from the neighbouring Slovakia.
This year, 45 gay and 25 lesbian couples were registered and one of the partners was from abroad in ten cases.
Out of the total of 89 couples that terminated their partnership, 42 were female and 47 male couples.
In the first half of 2011, 15 couples of gays and 8 of lesbians broke up.
The first same-sex couple in the Czech Republic to conclude registered partnership were cook Josef, then 26, and railway worker Karel, 42. They did so in Ostrava, north Moravia, on July 1, 2006, the same day when the law came into force.
The first lesbian partnership was also concluded in Ostrava by shop assistant Stepanka, then 30, and baker Vendulka, 27.
After same-sex partnership was legalised in the Czech Republic, the Gay Initiative organisation, which was pushing for the law, along with other groups, terminated its work.
Another homosexual association, the Platform for Equality, Recognition and Diversity (PROUD), was established recently. It wants to strive for homosexuals' right to conclude marriages and adopt children.
The PROUD activists also criticise the fact that the new draft civil code totally ignores the existence of same-sex partnerships.
