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Friday, January 30, 2004
 
UN takes—rather small—step towards recognizing same-sex partners    

[STUFF (New Zeland)]
UN takes step towards recognising gay partners
30 January 2004

UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations took a cautious step yesterday in recognising gay and unmarried heterosexual partnerships among their employees by deciding to grant couples health and other benefits if their home country allows it. ...

...In the United States, the federal government would be asked for a ruling, and UN officials assumed the answer would be "no".

My comments: A pretty big cop-out on the part of the UN—why involve home country governments? I would think that the UN would have the authority to make its own decisions regarding benefits policies for its employees... At any rate, given the nature of the US's federal system of governemnt, I would think it would make more logical sense to ask the person's state...


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