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Rainbow Family Rights in Europe – Part 3: The Western Balkans

22.04.2021

In the third part of our mini-series on rainbow family rights, we’re looking at the issues affecting LGBTI partners, parents and their children in the Western Balkans.

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We are joined by Danijel Kalezi?, president of the Governing Board of Queer Montenegro, which helped usher in legislation for civil unions for same-sex couples, which were signed into law last year, making Montenegro the second Western Balkans country, after Croatia, to do so.

Danijel is with us to talk about the journey so far in Montenegro, and the state of play for same-sex partnership rights across the Western Balkans.

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