SAME – SEX MARRIAGE IN COSTA RICA

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SAME - SEX MARRIAGE is still a little taboo to many people and in many countries. People tend to treat these people differently or just stare at them differently. Which personally I feel is wrong, as we all are human and we all are the same. We all deserve to love and feel loved. We shouldn’t be judged about our sexuality whether we are straight or a member of any community because at the end we all are humans. So this year itself, costa rica legalised Same - sex marriage.

Same-sex marriage in Costa Rica has been legal since 26 May 2020 by the ​Supreme Court of Justice.​ In ​Central America,​ ​Costa Rica​ was the first country, to acknowledge and accomplish ​same-sex marriages​. The Supreme Court of Costa Rica declared, on 8t​ h​ August, the sections of the Family code outlawed the same sex marriage to be felonious. The Legislative Assembly was given 18 months to ameliorate the law correspondingly. If not, the embargo would be annihilated automatically. This pronouncement was issued in the

judicial​ ​communiqué on 26 November 2018, interpreting that same – sex marriage would be legal at the very most on 26 May 2020. This followed by another pronouncement in January 2018 by the Inter – American Court of Human Rights declaring that American Convention on Human Rights endorser countries are called for to allow same – sex marriage. In 2​ 018, during the Costa Rican general election​ - this issue was a major topic. After the court adjudication, several unsuccessful attempts by orthodox legislators to delay the time limit crashed due to lack of support.

On 26 May 2020 among the other more joyous couples, ​Alexandra Quiros and Dunia Araya were ​the first same-sex couple​ to get married in Costa Rica, as same – sex marriage became legal in the country. This day is for celebrations as it didn’t come with no fights or objections. At midnight, they celebrated their wedding in Heredia, in an outdoor ceremony that was broadcasted live. With this Costa Rica joined ​28 other countries around the world in rendering to same-sex marriage, and facilitates marriage equality in Latin America, along with Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Uruguay. 18 states and the federal district, In Mexico, have access to same – sex marriage equality, where in the other 13 states, same-sex couples can marry but would need a court decree.

Costa Rica should be symbolized as an exemplification to its Central American neighbours, where the authority of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people abide by more crenelated. For example, in Guatemala, ​a bill​ in legislature seeks to keep same-sex marriage illegal. In Panama, in October 2019, lawmakers ​initiated a congenital ​redrafting that defines marriage as between a man and a woman. Further on Central America, Costa Rica’s bridleway to same – sex marriage egalitarianism can persuade affiancing with human rights law and its institutions.

Costa Rica's first openly gay legislator, Enrique Sanchez, told ​Reuters​ that same sex - marriage equality represents the pinnacle of a ceaseless battle by protesters. The LGBTQ community still goes through ubiquitous discrimination and violence throughout the region. At least 1,300 LGBTQ people were murdered in Latin America and the Caribbean, from 2014-2019, ​last year​ accepted by a regional network of gay rights groups according to fact - finding. The U.N. Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, Victor Madrigal-Borloz, — and also Costa Rican — ​exclaiming it​ as “an extraordinary moment of celebration and gratitude to the work of so many activists, and of quiet reflection of the loves of those who lived without seeing this moment.”

Alvarado Quesada, the centre-left, conclusively vanquished a traditionalist adversary in Costa Rica's presidential surplus in April by encouraging to authorize same – sex marriage and protect the country's reputation for liberality. Alvarado Quesada said that ordinance would be reshaped to acquiesce with the court sovereign. In contempt of Costa Rica's prominence as a socially efficacious nation, with high education and health standards, reproductive comeuppance such as in vitro fertilization and abortion are not extensively sanctioned, balloting is shown. Scantily 30 percent of Costa Ricans preferred same-sex marriage, bestowed to a survey released in January by the CIEP think tank of the University of Costa Rica.

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