Thailand: Promptly Pass Same-Sex Marriage Bill

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Women kiss while holding a poster to support marriage equality, during a Pride Parade in Bangkok, Thailand, June 4, 2023. ©2023 AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File (Bangkok) – The Thai parliament’s upper house should promptly pass a same-sex marriage bill that the lower house approved by an overwhelming majority on March 27, 2024, Human Rights Watch said today. Thailand would become the first country in Southeast Asia, and the second in Asia, to recognize same-sex relationships. Thailand’s House of Representatives passed the Marriage Equality Act with the approval of 400…

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