Colombia: Pro-equality protests as Senate votes on same-sex marriage bill
Rainbow flags are out in force in Bogota ahead of a vote by the Senate, which is considering a marriage equality bill today.
The Senate was due to vote on the issue last Thursday but the vote was re-scheduled to today.
In 2001, the Colombian Constitutional Court issued a ruling that required politicians to ‘repair the deficit of legal protection’ for same-sex couples in the country by the 20th June 2013 or same-sex couples would be granted the right to marry. However, in 2009, a court ruled that this would not mean the right to adopt, as straight couples have the right to do.
Earlier today, France’s Parliament passed a law making same-sex marriage legal.
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