{"id":48711,"date":"2013-11-08T09:27:32","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T05:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=48711"},"modified":"2013-11-08T09:27:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T05:27:32","slug":"greece-court-win-for-gays-over-civil-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=48711","title":{"rendered":"Greece: Court Win for Gays Over Civil Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Gay-marriage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48698\" alt=\"Gay-marriage\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Gay-marriage.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Gay-marriage.jpg 460w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Gay-marriage-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gay rights campaigners in Greece have welcomed a decision by a European court condemning the country for failing to include same-sex couples in 2008 legislation that introduced civil partnerships.<\/p>\n<p>A panel of judges at the Council of Europe&#8217;s Court of Human rights, ruled Thursday that the legislation was discriminatory and ordered the state to pay plaintiffs \u20ac5,000 euros ($6,670) each in damages as well as an additional amount for court costs.<\/p>\n<p>The civil partnerships are favored by couples seeking legal rights outside marriage or who are deterred by lengthy divorce procedures in marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Grigoris Vallianatos, a prominent gay rights campaigner who led the legal action, described the ruling as a &#8220;landmark decision&#8221; for gays in Greece, and the most important legal victory in 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Gay rights campaigners in Greece have welcomed a decision by a European court condemning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":48698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[3627,3628],"class_list":["post-48711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","tag-gays","tag-partnership","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}