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Slovenia implements same-sex partnership act

Xinhua, February 25, 2017 Adjust font size:

Slovenia from Friday permitted same-sex couples to have the same rights as heterosexuals, except in adoption and in-vitro fertilization, under its same-sex partnership act.

Slovenian LGBT NGO Legebitra viewed it as an important step and to solve the biggest problem for same-sex couples, Slovenian News Agency STA reported.

The law was passed in April 2016 after a referendum in December 2015 rejected a draft which suggested giving gay couples the right to adopt children.

Since 2006, same-sex couples in Slovenia have the right to register their relationship and 135 couples have been registered so far in the country with a population of two million.

Same-sex couples also are also permitted to adopt children from a partner's previous relationship, but not from others since 2006, STA said. Endit