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s virgin islands caribbean sea by wockner on august 19 2026 worldwide marriage equality watch list amsterdam city hall april 1 2001 this is a companion article to marriage equality around the world here we track the nations and other jurisdictions most likely to see marriage equality next as well as places where marriage equality has become a high profile topic last update august 19 2026 bolivia in march 2023 bolivia s constitutional court legalized same sex free unions that carry all the rights and obligations of marriage the reasoning of the ruling the language of bolivia s constitution and the interplay between the bolivian constitution and rulings of the inter american court of human rights suggest that if activists pursue marriage equality they should win that too bolivia is required to bring in marriage equality by the inter american court s 2017 marriage equality ruling and doubly required to do so because of the manner in which inter american court rulings are incorporated into the nation s constitution on aug 7 2026 a same sex couple was allowed to marry after a court ruling that applied only to them botswana six judges of botswana s high court heard a marriage equality case on july 14 15 2026 six british overseas territories nineteen uk associated jurisdictions have marriage equality england and wales 2014 akrotiri and dhekelia 2014 british indian ocean territory 2014 2015 scotland 2014 south georgia and the south sandwich islands 2014 pitcairn islands 2015 ascension island 2016 isle of man 2016 british antarctic territory 2016 gibraltar 2016 guernsey 2017 falkland islands 2017 tristan da cunha 2017 saint helena 2017 jersey 2018 alderney 2018 northern ireland 2020 and sark 2020 six british overseas territories do not have marriage equality anguilla bermuda british virgin islands cayman islands montserrat and turks and caicos islands bermuda had marriage equality in 2017 and again from 2018 to 2022 it was terminated on march 14 2022 by the court of final appeal the judicial committee of the privy council in the united kingdom the judgment is here the cayman islands had marriage equality for 13 days in 2019 it was blocked with finality on march 14 2022 by the court of final appeal the judicial committee of the privy council in the united kingdom the judgment is here the six remaining uk jurisdictions can still achieve marriage equality if their legislatures pass it if the uk government imposes it or possibly via the european court of human rights there is also a case from the british virgin islands before the eastern caribbean supreme court czech republic the chamber of deputies rejected marriage equality in february 2024 dutch caribbean overseas municipalities bonaire saba and sint eustatius and constituent countries aruba and curaçao have marriage equality constituent country sint maarten does not the netherlands was the first country in the world to bring in marriage equality in 2001 bonaire saba and sint eustatius got marriage equality in 2012 the dutch supreme court brought marriage equality to aruba and curaçao in 2024 el salvador there are multiple marriage equality lawsuits before the constitutional chamber of the supreme court of justice which is bound by the 2017 inter american court of human rights marriage equality ruling to rule for marriage equality in january 2020 justice aldo cáder said the court planned to rule before april 2020 in september 2021 president nayib bukele suggested he opposes marriage equality guatemala in march 2022 congress passed a bill that explicitly banned marriage for same sex couples contravening the november 2017 marriage equality ruling by the inter american court of human rights which is binding on guatemala two days later president alejandro giammattei said he would veto the bill if congress did not withdraw it because it was unconstitutional and violated international conventions guatemala is a party to four days later congress voted to archive the bill and not send it to giammattei s desk in july 2026 activists filed suit in the constitutional court to overturn the man woman definition of marriage honduras the constitution chamber of the supreme court of justice rejected marriage equality in january 2022 and several cases 1 2 3 have been taken to the inter american human rights system in 2017 the inter american court of human rights issued a marriage equality ruling binding on 20 nations including honduras twelve of the nations still have not brought in marriage equality hong kong in october 2019 the court of first instance of the high court of hong kong ruled against a lesbian who sued for access to marriage alleging that her constitutional rights to privacy and equality were being violated the court said the word marriage in hong kong law refers to heterosexual marriage and the case did not present sufficiently strong or compelling evidence for ruling otherwise it added that legislators should deal with recognizing same sex relationships in august 2019 single issue activist group hong kong marriage equality launched india on oct 17 2023 the supreme court of india declined to bring in marriage equality in a ruling that otherwise soared with lgbtqi friendly rhetoric the judgments kicked any decision on marriage equality to the nation s parliament the court added however that india s states are free to bring in marriage equality without a national law india has 28 states and 8 union territories jamaica in july 2019 a legal case was launched at the inter american commission on human rights seeking to bring marriage equality to jamaica it argues that jamaica s constitution is in violation of the american convention on human rights which the nation signed four decades ago in december 2022 the commission accepted the case japan the 15 member supreme court grand bench will hear six marriage equality lawsuits and issue a ruling possibly before the second quarter of 2027 in five of the cases high courts in sapporo tokyo fukuoka nagoya and osaka found the nation s same sex marriage ban unconstitutional same sex couples filed marriage equality lawsuits nationwide on valentine s day 2019 lithuania in april 2023 three couples sued the national government to force it to recognize and allow same sex marriages in march 2024 they decided to take their case to the european court of human rights mexico mexico achieved marriage equality state by state between march 2010 and october 2022 there is still a bit of clean up that needs to happen i have a detailed article here namibia in may 2023 namibia s supreme court ordered the government to recognize same sex marriages entered into abroad between a namibian and a foreigner the case centered on residency rights for two non namibian spouses panama the supreme court of justice rejected marriage equality in february 2023 the ruling directly contravenes the inter american court of human rights 2017 marriage equality ruling which is binding on panama and 19 other nations the court said the ruling indicates that there is a reality and that is up to now the right to marriage equality has not gone beyond being an aspiration that although legitimate for the groups involved does not have the category of a human right or fundamental right being that it lacks conventional and constitutional recognition peru in june 2022 the constitutional court rejected cases seeking registration of peruvian same sex couples marriages entered into in other countries the court reportedly said that bringing in marriage equality requires a change in the nation s constitution that it would be an abuse of the court s position to impose marriage equality that the 2017 inter american court of human rights marriage equality ruling is not binding on peru and that the inter american human rights system suffers from ideologization in january 2023 congress justice and human rights committee archived a marriage equality bill sending it to the legislative freezer as they say in spanish at the time of the inter american court ruling which is binding on 20 countries including peru the president of peru s supreme court of justice duberlí rodríguez stated peru is part of the inter american system and the organism that defends and protects these rights is called the inter american court of human rights and if the court has taken a decision i believe that all the parties are called to respect that decision the only countries in south america without marriage equality are bolivia guyana paraguay peru suriname and venezuela philippines in september 2019 the supreme court unanimously dismissed a marriage equality case it had heard in june 2018 while acknowledging that the constitution does not define or restrict marriage on the basis of sex the justices said the plaintiff lacked standing violated the principle of hierarchy of courts and failed to raise a justiciable controversy poland same sex couples cannot marry in poland but poland recognizes same sex marriages entered into in other european union member nations romania an attempt to obstruct marriage equality by rewriting the definition of family in the constitution failed in october 2018 when an inadequate percentage of voters showed up to vote in a nationwide referendum thirty percent of all voters needed to cast a ballot for the referendum result to be valid but only 20 41 percent did lgbt leaders and others had called on voters to boycott the referendum in september 2018 romania s constitutional court ruled that same sex couples must have the same legal and juridical recognition of their rights and obligations as opposite sex couples in may 2023 the european court of human rights ordered romania to legalize same sex unions slovakia in june 2022 slovakia s constitutional court said it would rule on recognition of same sex marriages entered into in other countries in august 2026 slovak interior minister matúš šutaj eštok refused to register the marriage of two men who married in austria the move violated a november 2025 european court of justice ruling that requires the 27 nations of the european union including those without marriage equality to recognize same sex marriages from other member nations such as by transcribing the marriage in the domestic civil register and recognizing rights conferred by eu law south korea in november 2019 lgbts filed 1 056 complaints at the national human rights commission of korea demanding marriage equality gagoonet the korean network for partnership and marriage rights of lgbt said the mass complaints target the president prime minister heads of ministries and local governments and the national assembly chair korean same sex couples are not guaranteed the rights of marriage and family life which are basic rights guaranteed by the constitution of korea gagoonet said because of the lack of recognition same sex couples in korea suffer from an infringement of economic and social rights including social security access to healthcare and housing and workplace benefits suriname in january 2023 suriname s constitutional court ruled that the central bureau for civil affairs did not have to record the marriage of a surinamese male couple who got married in argentina the court said the man woman definition of marriage in the civil code does not violate the constitution or international treaties the south american nation has signed suriname is a signatory to the american convention on human rights and is bound to bring in marriage equality by the inter american court of human rights 2017 marriage equality ruling venezuela two marriage equality lawsuits have long been at the final stage in the constitutional chamber of the supreme tribunal of justice according to venezuela igualitaria one lawsuit targets a civil code article that says marriage cannot be contracted except between one man and one woman the other lawsuit alleges a legislative omission resulting from the national assembly s failure to take up the equal civil marriage bill in october 2020 president nicolás maduro suggested the national assembly should address marriage equality in its term that began in january 2021 but he later said it isn t a priority 27 nations bound by european court of justice ruling in november 2025 the european court of justice ruled that the 27 nations of the european union including those without marriage equality the case was from poland are required to recognize same sex marriages from other member nations such as by transcribing the marriage in the domestic civil register and recognizing rights conferred by eu law western europe the only nations in western europe without marriage equality are italy and the microstates monaco san marino and vatican city by wockner on august 19 2026 saturday december 6 2025 mexico s wild ride to marriage equality article maintained with help from geraldina gonzález de la vega and alex alí méndez díaz last update december 6 2025 alex alí méndez díaz between march 2010 and october 2022 mexico achieved marriage equality state by state in all 31 states and federal capital mexico city the process gained steam after 2015 when the supreme court of justice of the nation scjn issued jurisprudence declaring that bans on marriage equality were unconstitutional the ruling did two things it put the states on notice that they needed to pass marriage equality and it created a pathway in states without marriage equality for a couple to go to a federal judge and get an injunction amparo forcing local officials to let them marry the 2015 scjn ruling said marriage the law of any federative entity that on the one hand considers that the purpose of it marriage is procreation and or that defines it as that which is celebrated between a man and a woman is unconstitutional matrimonio la ley de cualquier entidad federativa que por un lado considere que la finalidad de aquél es la procreación y o que lo defina como el que se celebra entre un hombre y una mujer es inconstitucional the ruling resulted from a project 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