{"id":58102,"date":"2023-09-05T18:57:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T09:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/05\/hong-kong-top-court-legal-recognition-same-sex-couples"},"modified":"2023-09-05T18:57:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T09:57:21","slug":"hong-kongs-top-court-rules-in-favour-of-legal-recognition-for-same-sex-couples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58102","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s top court rules in favour of legal recognition for same-sex couples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judges call for alternative framework to marriage in partial victory for city\u2019s LGBTQ+ community<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong must provide an alternative to marriage in order to legally recognise the rights of same-sex couples, the city\u2019s highest court has declared, opening the way for civil unions.<\/p>\n<p>However, it rejected appeals against current laws that restrict marriage to heterosexual couples and refuse to recognise overseas same-sex marriages, despite majority support among the population.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/05\/hong-kong-top-court-legal-recognition-same-sex-couples\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judges call for alternative framework to marriage in partial victory for city\u2019s LGBTQ+ communityHong Kong must provide an alternative to marriage in order to legally recognise the rights of same-sex couples, the city\u2019s highest court has declared, openi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,48,2729,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-hong-kong","category-lgbtq-rights","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58103,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58102\/revisions\/58103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}