Aruba has offered registered partnerships since October Archived from the original on 14 April Same-sex relations between men are banned in parts of Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Singapore. The new law, which was passed inreplaced a law permitting civil unions.
Since the beginning ofseveral anti-gay marriage protests with occasionally volatile crowds numbering in the hundreds of thousands have taken place in Paris and elsewhere.
LGBT portal. Bans all anti-gay discrimination [] [] [] [] []. Archived from the original on 7 March Australia and New Zealand are the only Pacific Rim countries in which same-sex marriage is legal. Illegal Penalty: year prison sentence or incarceration in a psychiatric institution Not enforced.
Dominican Republic. Gender change legal since ; does not require surgery. On April 28,Colombia became the fourth country in Catholic-majority South America to legalize same-sex marriage, following Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil.
ILGA found 35 percent of Indians and 30 percent of Pakistanis in thought same-sex marriage should be legal. Status of same-sex unions around the world. In , Canada became the first country in the Western Hemisphere to legalize same-sex marriage.
See also Same-sex union legislation Same-sex union court cases Timeline of same-sex marriage Recognition of same-sex unions in Africa Recognition of same-sex unions in Asia Recognition of same-sex unions in Europe Recognition of same-sex unions in the Americas Recognition of same-sex unions in Oceania Marriage privatization Divorce of same-sex couples Domestic partnership Military policy Adoption Listings by country LGBT rights by country or territory.
A district in Tokyo began recognizing same-sex unions in , amid rapidly shifting public opinion in Japan.