Bolivia: Lesbian Couple Denied Registration of Union

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image The Constitutional Court of Bolivia (Tribunal Constitucional Plurinacional). © 2016 Héctor A. Aramayo Martínez, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/, via Wikimedia Commons (Washington, DC) – Bolivia’s national civil registry (Registro de Servicio Cívico, SERECÍ) has discriminated against a lesbian couple by rejecting their application to register their relationship as a union, Human Rights Watch said today. All civil registries in the country should start legally recognizing same-sex relationships. The lesbian couple, foreign citizens who…

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