A straight couple who were previously denied the right to enter into a civil partnership have won a claim at the Supreme Court that they had suffered discrimination. Civil partnerships are currently ...

A heterosexual couple was refused a civil partnership at London's Camden Register Office on Dec. 8. The registrar cited the legal ban on opposite-sex civil partnerships as the reason for the refusal.

It has been 12 years since civil partnerships were first introduced into English law, yet they are apparently no less controversial than they were on day one, albeit for different reasons. Although ...

British Treasury junior minister Angela Eagle and her partner of 18 years, Maria Exall, entered an official civil partnership Sept. 27. Civil partnerships in the United Kingdom carry the same rights ...

A new initiative drive seeks to provide gay Arizonans, denied the right to marry, an alternate option. The proposal filed Tuesday with the Secretary of State’s Office would create “civil partnerships.

In a move that Irish Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern described as “one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation to come before us since independence," the legislation to recognize in ...

LONDON (Reuters) -A Cayman Islands' law legalising same-sex civil partnerships was upheld by a London court on Monday, after a long-running legal battle, in a ruling hailed by campaigners and the ...

Poland’s administration led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk has put forward a proposal to create “civil partnerships” for adults, regardless of their gender, which would be officially registered with ...

Gay conservative U.K. anti-transgender activist Alex Bramham recently entered a civil union with his partner. They used the ceremony to highlight their transphobic views and oppose government ...