The Panama National Assembly in Panama City (Washington Blade photo by Michael K. Lavers)
PANAMA CITY Activists in Panama have urged the country’s president to remove two provisions of a bill that would prevent same-sex couples from adopting children.
The
Panamanian National Assembly on March 3 approved Bill 120, which would reform
the country’s adoption system.
Article 22
of the bill states a man and a woman “united in marriage or a common law
marriage for a minimum of two years” can adopt a child. La Prensa, a
Panamanian newspaper, notes
Article 26 of the bill would allow joint adoptions “when the people are spouses
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Speakers: Ricardo Hausmann, Director, Growth Lab; Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School; Francisco Cox Vial, lawyer and member of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, appointed by the United Nation’s Human Rights Council.
Moderated by: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University, Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; José Ignacio Hernández G., Fellow, Growth Lab at Harvard s Center for International Development
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Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to Hold Public Hearing on Colonisation of Indigenous Lands in Nicaragua
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In 2020 alone, at least 13 Indigenous rights defenders were killed, eight people injured, two people kidnapped, and one community forcibly displaced in the Indigenous territories of the Bosawás Biosphere Reserve in northeastern Nicaragua, as part of ongoing violent colonisation of the region.
The public hearing comes after months of growing international pressure on the Nicaraguan government and the private sector to take concrete action against the invasion of Indigenous and Afrodescendant lands on the Caribbean coast.
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