In its ruling, Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal gave the government two years to set up a new framework to legally recognize same-sex partnerships
Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal on Tuesday ordered the government to set up a new framework to legally recognize same-sex partnerships, in a partial victory for campaigners that stopped short of full marriage equality.
The ruling ends a five-year legal battle waged by activist and former lawmaker Jimmy Sham, and follows a number of other incremental judgments providing greater protections for LGBTQ people in the Chinese territory. Should they not, he appeared to leave the door open to the court recognizing such a right, saying future judges might give a “wider, more liberal interpretation” to Article 37 of the Hong Kong Basic Law, which does not mention gender and states merely “the freedom of marriage of Hong Kong residents and their right to raise a family freely shall be protected by law.”
“The absence of legal recognition has been seen to be essentially discriminatory and demeaning to same-sex couples,” they said.according to researchers In 2019, Taiwan became the first, and so far only, place in Asia to fully legalize same-sex marriage. But there is a shift underway across the continent towards greater equality, with several countries seemingly poised to make changes in the near future.
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