{"id":66367,"date":"2015-07-22T10:52:01","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T14:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cam4.com\/?p=66367"},"modified":"2015-07-22T10:52:01","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T14:52:01","slug":"italy-violates-same-sex-marriage-rights-european-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog\/news\/italy-violates-same-sex-marriage-rights-european-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy Violates Same Sex Marriage Rights &#8211; European Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the appeal of three homosexual couples, yesterday the Legal Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg have expressed a severe judgment to Italy, the only country in Western Europe that does not recognize the rights of same sex couples. Their stance: Italy\u00a0violates human rights by not offering adequate legal protection and recognition to same-sex couples.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a map of Europe showing which countries have legalized same sex marriages (in red) or same sex unions (in green). Countries in beige have not legalized either.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12957\" src=\"https:\/\/it.cam4.com\/blog\/files\/2015\/07\/5dc89d2b2520aae1ed7421302b92d19f.jpg\" alt=\"italy-violates-same-sex-marriage\" width=\"281\" height=\"254\" \/>The official ruling from the European Court\u00a0said gay couples were essentially forced to live double lives in Italy: they could live openly in their relationships, but do not receive official recognition of their status as a family.\u00a0Specifically ruling that Italy violates article eight of the European Convention on Human Rights\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0the right to respect for privacy and family life<\/p>\n<p>Italy&#8217;s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has promised to\u00a0pass legislation recognising civil partnerships,\u00a0but efforts to move forward on the issue have made little progress since he\u00a0took office last year.\u00a0Granted, there is significant pressure from the large conservative population in Italy.<\/p>\n<h2>Join our cry: FREE TO BE FREE, and celebrate with us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\" target=\"_blank\">CAM4<\/a>!<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"element element-rich-link element--thumbnail element-rich-link--upgraded\" data-component=\"rich-link\" data-link-name=\"rich-link-1 | 1\">\n<div class=\"rich-link tone-analysis--item \"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the appeal of three homosexual couples, yesterday the Legal Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg have expressed a severe judgment to Italy,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":66368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[523],"tags":[621],"class_list":["post-66367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-pride","news"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}