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The resolution, "Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to equal rights for men and women", reads, in part: [1] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States ...
This version of the amendment reads: Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. [2] The vote is 84 in favor and 8 opposed. A deadline is set that it must by ratified by the required 38 states within the next seven years. [3] March 22, 1972 – Hawaii ratifies the ERA. [4]
The bill never reached Congress for debate in plenary session. [ 195 ] The 2018 Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruling regarding the legalization of same-sex marriage in countries that have ratified the American Convention on Human Rights applies to Peru.
Honduras: In May 2022, the deputy of the Libertad y Refundación Party, Manuel Rodríguez, presented a bill in congress to legalize same-sex marriage. [82] In December 2022, the Minister of Human Rights, Natalie Roque, said that the legalization of same-sex marriage was "not on the agenda" of the Castro Administration.
May possibly change gender under the Código do Registro Civil 2015 [146] Botswana: Legal since 2019 [147] (Only LGB) Bans all anti-gay discrimination Legal gender change recognized as a constitutional right since 2017 [148] Eswatini: Male illegal since the 1880s (not enforced, repeal proposed) [149] Penalty: Unknown Female always legal [68 ...
The United States is the only industrialized democracy that does not ensure rights for women in its federal constitution. [1] Although the required 38 states have passed the amendment as of 2020, the U.S. archivist has not ratified the amendment due to a congressionally-set ratification deadline of March 22, 1979, which some state approvals surpassed. [4]
The country ranks relatively poorly in the 2019 Best Countries for Women, highly discriminates against its women and fosters gender inequality through enduring laws and practices. ... according to ...
Uruguay became the first country in South America to allow civil unions (for both opposite sex and same-sex couples) on 1 January 2008. Children can be adopted by same-sex couples since 2009. [98] [99] A same-sex marriage bill passed in the Chamber of Deputies in December 2012, [100] [101] as well as in the Senate in April 2013 but with minor ...