Ecuador Judges Rule Against Same-Sex Marriage Ban

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07/08/2018

Two judges of an Ecuadorian court have ruled against that nation’s ban on same-sex marriage. The pair of judges sit on the Family, Women, Children and Adolescents Court in Cuenca, Ecuador. The presiding justices were Iliana Vallejo and Ruth Alvarez. In their ruling, they noted that rejected same-sex marriage license applications amounted to a significant violation of human rights. The immediate spur to the ruling was a pair of cases brought to the court by several same-sex couples whose petition for marriage licenses were denied. The recent ruling said that the couples must be allowed immediately to proceed with their marriage plans. In part, the Ecuadorian court took instruction from a ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which handed down a ruling in January, to much media attention.

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