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During the year 2002, the Government of Andalusia was a new law for the “de facto” literally means “de facto couples,” to formalize their union under the law without actually getting married in a church or civil status. At the time, this as a step forward in the legislation to grant the same rights to common-law couples as married couples, officially, but since then the Junta de Andalucía, the law has been largely ignored by the citizens they are supposed to help. In Marbella, to the extent that the law Effective seven years ago, only 91 common law couples have registered as such, according to figures released recently by the delegation for Gender Equality and Social Affairs of the Junta de Andalucía.

So far, the number of same-sex couples have the advantage of the new legislation has not exceeded more than five hours each year in Marbella, with two so far this year. In accordance with the provisions of the Act, which is a pair (regardless of sex) should be recorded in a residence in a municipality for the couple formally enrolled in a “pareja de hecho”. The delegation for gender equality and social well-being in the “Junta de Andalucía has been responsible for managing the new law since 2005, the recovery of this mission by the delegation of justice and public administration . As in the case of Marbella, but registration as a couple may, at any City Hall in Andalusia.

Despite the fact that 91 2002, the sources de la Junta de Andalucía, Marbella and the City Council to say that its future is uncertain, a law, given the fact that it was in the past Andalusian Parliament widely regarded as a means of supporting homosexual couples could formalize their situation, while in the meantime, in July 2005, same-sex marriage was legalized in Spain. This underscores the law in the region of Andalusia somewhat redundant, and no doubt explains the low number of same-sex couples will use it. Only 16 same-sex couples as, de facto, in Marbella, since the 2002 Act came into force, and, instead of increasing the number has declined over the past year, with only two so far this year.

Economic issues

One of the central questions that are the subject of the new law is the creation of an economic agreement between the couple in question, formalizing their joint of the economy, while the unions and when it ends. As in a normal marriage that all aspects of the couple, is taken into account the financial situation, as this is particularly important in the case of a break-up.

The impact of separation is minimal officially registered in the fact couples, we are sure, the sources consulted. Statistics show that since 2002, only five out of 91 couples have registered since de-registered. The law determines that an association officially registered this type can only be broken by the death of one of its partners, by mutual agreement by the desire of one partner or to separate the effective end of unions, even if a one-year period only must happen before the latter due to the dissolution of the Union was officially recognized.

All over Andalusia, we said, sources within the Junta de Andalucía, the most common cause of the separation of couples fact, the request of either party to put an end to both the economy, housing or taxation. If such a unit ends, the law obliges the couple officially disband, as a means of preventing fraud possible.

Facts and figures

Some couples registered

Recorded in 2003: 33

2004: 23

2005 (the date when the law on same-sex marriages entered into force on July 3, 2005): 18

2006: 10

2007: 7

Total: 91

Gay Marriages

2005: Five (four for men and between women).

2006: Five (three men and two women).

2007: Four (three men and one woman).

2008: So far, two (between men and between women).

Arlington, the police is working to ensure that all of its leaders are aware that a new directive on the treatment of officials of domestic violence requires demand for same-sex couples in the same way, how these events are handled directly for couples.

Capt. Michelle Nuneville police, the police chief of Arlington’s Gay & Lesbian Liaison Team (GLLT), the police official said about the new strategy calls for meetings at the beginning of the day. The police also the publication of the new procedure of fact sheets for the officers, she said.

The Directive allows October 3, the judge requires Arlington to the question of the option and the protective function of the market of domestic violence by the police, if a case of abuse of same-sex partners. The Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, cases of domestic violence just for couples, is also listening to the events of the same sex.

The head of the magistrate begins multi-exposure process in the [Juvenile Domestic Relations Court] for same-sex partners, the United memo.

The directive was adopted, and the Juvenile Domestic Relations Court, the police and the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office.

Loreann Officer Grimes, the team leader Deputy Police’s GLLT Arlington, said that the new directive, each thinking the same way for handling cases of domestic violence of the same sex.

“We worked… and all officers to inform that this is the way it will happen, so that it is not for any kind of confusion on the type of options you go, “she said.

Before the memo was issued, officials were handling cases of domestic violence, either for same-sex couples or domestic violence as a simple injury. In simple injuries, the victim has the option of pressing costs, and the case is heard in the General District Court in the domestic politics of aggression, persecution of the state, the victim of the author ‘offence, irrespective of the desires and the case is heard in the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court of Justice.

Nuneville said officials must now address all cases of abuse in same-sex relationships as cases of domestic violence.

“Now I think we are on the same track, all judges did the same thing, and such cases be heard by two judges of the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court of Justice”, she said.

Robert cold, the Chief Justice of Virginia’s 17 Judicial District, including Arlington County, Falls Church, he said that the directive to the Arlington political circles with the land.

Counties such as Alexandria and Fairfax have already such guidelines in force, “said Nuneville.

The police sergeant. Kip Malcolm, the chief of police in Arlington GLLT said, the change is actually a procedural error thing “and” is not really a lot differently “than others recognize that, in Arlington” ” domestic production, it is a national “, and that sex The parties do not have a role.

Domestic assault and grievous bodily singles are both a crime as a class, there is no difference in time served in prison for convicts perpetuators. However, domestic production of aggression, unlike the perpetuators injury simple, are prohibited weapons from his conviction. There is also a greater chance that assign a judge to anger management classes in the prevention of domestic violence cases, said Malcolm.

The directive meets Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell Marshall interpretation of the amendment Newman, whereby same-sex marriage in Virginia. The Attorney General issued his opinion on the amendment of the voter.

In addition to the indication that the change is not related to contracts, wills, medical care and directors of other agreements, McDonnell concluded that the amendment “does not change the application and implementation Virginia’s protection from domestic violence. ”

Decisions regarding the treatment of domestic violence cases in the hands of municipalities, cold, the issue has attracted the attention of officials at Arlington a quarterly meeting. The senior official said the judge was informed that he could provide them with domestic violence of the same sex was his decision so that it is in the directive.

Cold were no statistics on the number of domestic violence cases with same-sex partners, Arlington. He said he knows: “We have a little bit of everything.”

According to one study, domestic violence occurs as often in same-sex relationships, as it is in relationships. During the year 2004, the National Institutes of Health revealed that more than one fifth of gay men surveyed in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles had been physically abused by a partner in the last five years.

New Yorker Brendan Fay and his husband Tom Moulton, both gay activists, were flown to Warsaw by Poland’s private TVN television network this week for a round of political meetings, press conferences, and interviews that have substantially advanced the discussion of LGBT rights there, according to a Polish gay activist.

Fay and Moulton got sucked into Polish politics when President Lech Kaczynski used footage of their 2003 wedding in Canada in a March 17 televised speech to the nation warning that adoption of the European Union’s Lisbon Treaty would compel Poland to recognize same-sex marriages, which he linked to the end of “moral order.”

The Polish parliament voted overwhelmingly to adopt the treaty on April 2, an outcome that New York-based Polish gay activist Daniel Domagala of the Campaign Against Homophobia, the leading LGBT rights group in Poland, said was going to happen anyway.

But the media frenzy that surrounded Fay and Moulton this week, from the moment they landed in Warsaw, certainly did not hurt the cause of gay visibility in Poland.

“They gave a human face to the issue,” Domagala said.

Fay and Moulton, who live in Astoria, Queens, and have long records of gay activism, attracted considerable media attention in New York in the wake of the president’s attack, especially from Polish news outlets. The couple held a press conference at the Manhattan offices of Human Rights Watch last week calling on the president to apologize.

A spokesperson for Kaczynski said, “Mr. Brendan Fay, who invited the media to his quasi-wedding, should not be surprised that his image was used,” CWNews.com reported. The spokesperson said the president would not meet with them.

Two TV networks sought to bring the men to Poland and Fay and Moulton settled on TVN, the private network, over public television. Fay said they were in close contact with Polish gay leaders about all aspects of the trip and had stipulated that local leaders be included in any meetings they had there.

“Now the story is shifting from New York to Warsaw,” Fay said by telephone from Kennedy Airport just before boarding their flight.

The effects of the attacks on the couple have been dramatic.

“It has brought visibility to the issue,” said Domagala. Before this, he said, “No only had a lot of LGBT people been in the closet, but all of our supporters had been in the closet.”

The incident drew out the government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk, elected in October to replace that of Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the president’s identical twin brother and leader of the right-wing Law and Justice Party. Jaroslaw Kaczynski was exposed in the Polish media as a closeted gay man in 2006.

“We knew the new government wasn’t anti-LGBT, but also not out in support,” said Domagala. “This has made them declare themselves.”

The government’s plenipotentiary for equal legal status, Elzbieta Radziszewska, did not come out for gay partner rights, but “she said there should not be discrimination in Poland” against LGBT people, Domagala noted, and “offered to look after the LGBT community” through the powers of her office.

On March 28, more than 600 Polish intellectuals signed a letter “saying they were embarrassed by Kaczynski’s speech, assuring the US couple of their support and solidarity,” the UK Gay News reported.

Rabat, April 3 (STA) - for tourism, the minister responsible for 39 member states of the Euro-Mediterranean (Euromed), stressed Thursday in Morocco of the need for development of tourism in the Mediterranean region. Minister of Economy Slovenian Andrej Vizjak stressed the importance of cooperation, when he attended a conference in Fez.

Vizjak, the current president of the Council of the European Union Competitiveness, said, Slovenia was “very good, in fact, that there are vast benefits of closer cooperation between the EU and its partners Southern Mediterranean can be used for the further development of tourism in the region, “The Slovenian, the European Union - Presidency.

The Deputy Prime president of the first Euro-Mediterranean Conference of Ministers of the conference on the theme “Tourism said that tourism is increasingly an autonomous zone of the discussion after the adoption of the initial findings and policy directions for future cooperation between the EU and its southern partners in the development of sustainable tourism.

The guidelines also set an important programme for achieving the objectives of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership within the framework of the Barcelona process, read the press release.

Vizjak also to Europe from the University of the Mediterranean, mulled wine from Slovenia. The establishment of the university with curriculum on the current needs of the Mediterranean, tourism is another contribution and incentive aimed at strengthening cooperation between the two sides, “he stressed.

The ministers were also agree that such a conference should be held every two years and that in the meantime, working groups of senior officials to prepare for other programs should be strengthened for a Euro-Mediterranean cooperation in the field of tourism.

On the sidelines of the event, Vizjak also hold talks with his host Mohamed Boussaid, the Moroccan Minister of Tourism. The couple discussed the opportunities for the revival of the economy and tourism in the context of cooperation.

Michael Miller is preparing for his graduation at the end of this quarter. At the Federal Career Day on Wednesday, he looked at federal agencies that could give him a future.

“I looked at a few,” said Miller, a senior in economics. “I have not seriously considered any until today, though. But anything that gets us in touch with an agency is a good opportunity.”

Ohio State received funding from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management Federal host to Career Day.

The event attracted more than 50 agencies, and more than a circled students in 1500, said David Herman, program manager of the OPM.

“Today’s event expressed a growing need to hire a new generation of federal employees,” he said. “Over the next 10 years, there are roughly a million federal employees eligible to retire.

“We decided that career sponsoring events is a good way for federal agencies to compete for and … recruit talented people,” said Herman. “Students do not know much about federal employment, but the more they find out, the more they like what they hear.”

Recruiters help prepare students for federal job positions by offering internships.

“Ive been looking for an internship,” said Andy Schreiber, a junior in economics and political science. “It’s kind of … a unique opportunity to get to talk to all these people in one place.”

Meredith Lammers, a graduate student in law, is also looking for an internship to complement her education.

“I want to work in international adoption,” she said. “I am looking at citizenship and immigration services to maybe get an internship. It’s good to get in your resume.”

Herman encourages the push for internships.

“If they get an internship and do well, [the agencies] can offer a full-time job without competition,” said Herman.

That is why the federal agencies wish to talk directly to students and build long-term relationships between the agencies and the university, he said.

Some students, such as friends and Eric Gradert Chris Jarc, participated in the Federal Career Day for the more experience than the opportunities.

“I am just here to get used to talking to people,” said Gradert a sophomore in construction systems.

“Yeah, It’s more for a dry run experience,” said Jarc, a junior in the construction of systems.

The two are also excited about internship opportunities.

“That’s money right there! Hooray!” Here Jarc said.

Government officials in Africa and the nation states have their blessing for materials Mom’s bid to adopt Banda David, the 2-year old boy she met in an orphanage and an old half a year, insists that the High Court, to grant final approval From Madonna to take custody.

According to Reuters, a confidential report, recorded on March 25 by a probation officer at the Department of Children and the development of women, “said the husband of Madonna and Guy Ritchie have a good job and the parents of the young in London instead from their homes.

“In the best interest of the child, I advise you to your lordship petitioners on your thinking, it provides for the adoption, proof that they are likely to meet the parents and the conditions under which adopting command report, “to read the report by Reuters.

Since the adoption of procedures couple initiated in the fall of 2006, groups care for children unrest, accusing their glory Virgin abroad to circumvent the adoption of strict rules for the safety of children.

The “Ray of Light”, the singer has many critics, however, as the construction of an orphanage in the poor house agriculture and accommodation, an all-star campaign donations on behalf of UNICEF and Raising its own Malawi charity.

These efforts have helped to win the support of Malawi’s information minister Patricia Kaliati, in February recommended the adoption of telling us that Malawi Reuters “must” Madonna of the aid money for a poor country like theirs.

The Entertainer’s lawyers had requested a postponement of the High Court by the end of the month, a hearing is scheduled for next week, where Madonna is required to appear because of a conflict of the factory. A judge is expected to take a decision on that request by the day.

Pop Queen has been busy promoting publicity tours his latest album, Hard Candy, the drops on April 24.

The basic idea behind the compromise agreements Taif which has been confirmed by all parties and political leaders to their adoption in Lebanon as “final homeland,” in exchange for “Mounassafah:” Equitable distribution of seats in Parliament between Christians and Muslims (as a substitute for the 60 -40 Split for the Christians). two pages of this quid pro quo, were superficially implemented and the results were very disappointing.

On the one hand, the acceptance of Lebanon as a final homeland remained united and institutions ink on paper, the major Lebanese factions who continue to show their allegiance to foreign powers. On the other side, Christians Mounassafah is a sense of exclusion in point, demoralization, because in the current electoral system, a large number of Christians candidates are elected in districts with a Muslim majority, and are, in the eyes Coreligionists of its policy to hand their mentors Muslim, are unable or lacks the will to pursue the national aspiration Multi Christians, in a free and independent Lebanon, where they live and play certainly an effective role in the management of the country’s affairs.

In order to solve the problem of belonging to ask a number of Lebanese factions in their country, it is absolutely necessary, as a first step towards the reunification of its institutions through political negotiations on the role of Lebanon in the region and its general strategy of the defence. These should be on the immediate objective reinvestment of the state with the “monopoly of the legitimate use of violence” and foreign policy. The key task is to develop, strengthen and protect political power and a Lebanese nationalist elites. In this case, only the long term, to protect the country’s recurrent crises, always has a foreign power.

The problem of marginalization of the Christian community, the superficiality of the implementation of the formula for power-sharing in the “Mounassafeh” a more immediate solutions. One was Nizar Younes, in his book in Arabic: “Parliament tomorrow: an electoral system for a modern state.”

IBM Second Life is committed to a new project, which is still in its test phase, the employees of IBM, they can move freely from IBM the private sector, in Second Life, and the use of space Virtual interaction, samples, lectures and telecommunications, secure communications, Presented companies, before the virtual worlds in 2008, the conference this week.

Linden Lab offers companies the possibility of such as IBM, the virtual space for internal activities among members of society, to levels d ‘. The cooperation began originally in the year 2007, IBM announced that the IBM Virtual Business Center, the solutions proposed by a space for employees, customers and partners to meet and do business.

“We see many possible applications for this technology, with the practice of different scenarios and play a quick overview - an ideal environment for learning, job creation,” said Jim Spohrer, Director of Research Services IBM Almaden Research Center, on CNN Money afterwards. “Learning to move from a virtual world, help us, the participants at the front and middle of the stage for another Backstage obtain valuable coaching.”

IBM took advantage of the speed of communication, online meetings and Cooperation, simply by using their virtual avatars in the field of IBM: “We share the common vision that the virtual and collaborative technologies for the future of communication business - “Ginsu Yoon, Vice President of Business Affairs In Linden Lab,” said the San Francisco Chronicle. “Commitment regions of the grid IBM Second Life behind the firewall is an important milestone in the development of the Internet, and will contribute to accelerating the growth and adoption of all virtual worlds. ”

Virtual worlds way to recreate real environments and the development of a learning process on this account is a trend of more and more these days, and the virtual world is more than a place for regular people who, in the company exercised And prepare your staff, businesses and lead to a quick and reliable way.

(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - People in Bolivia are evenly split between those who approve of a new constitution and those who do not, according to a poll by Ipsos Apoyo, Opinión y Mercado. 41 per cent of respondents would vote in favour of the proposed body of law in an upcoming referendum, while 41 per cent would vote against it.

Evo Morales—an indigenous leader and former coca-leaf farmer—won the December 2005 presidential election as the candidate for the Movement to Socialism (MAS), with 53.7 per cent of the vote. He officially took over as Bolivia’s head of state in January 2006 and vowed to “re-found Bolivia” by enacting a new constitution.

In August 2006, the National Constituent Assembly—an elected ad-hoc body tasked with re-writing the country’s constitution—held its first session. The assembly was supposed to sit for just one year, but the process was marred by discrepancies between opposition parties and pro-government factions about whether the charter should be approved by a simple majority, as well as an attempt by MAS legislators to introduce an article to allow the indefinite re-election of the president. Opposition parties believed this would give Morales a chance to remain in power for as long as he wants.

In November 2007, a draft constitution was approved inside a military base in the vicinity of Sucre, with the support of all pro-government assembly members. Three people died and 20 more were injured during protests staged by the opposition to complain about the change of venue. The proposed draft includes articles that allow for consecutive presidential re-election, the creation of 36 autonomous indigenous communities, and tighter government controls over private media outlets.

Conservative opposition parties oppose the approved draft, which has led to a deep political division in the country. Earlier this month, the National Electoral Court (CNE) ruled that a referendum vote on the adoption of the new constitution should be delayed in order to allow opposition leaders and the government to solve the crisis first.

On Mar. 28, Morales praised the contents of the new body of law, saying, “According to international analysts, this is one of the most progressive constitutions in terms of social policies. That’s what we wanted, to bring about profound transformations in our society in democracy, peacefully. And the new constitution seeks equality for all Bolivians.”

The Greek authorities are considering enacting a law that would allow same-sex couples are recognized by a civil ceremony, the Netherlands, NET TV said Monday.

The Greek Ministry of Justice, agreed to establish a working group on the rights of homosexual couples living together, the analyses of all aspects of the topic, international practice and national legal frameworks and social rights. ”

New Democracy is led by the Government expects that a law before the end of this year, provide a variety of rights to unmarried couples.

The Minister of Justice has announced to the press that the government fight against discrimination and will therefore also for same-sex unions in the legislation.

This announcement is in trouble in the Greek Orthodox church.

Bishop Anthimos of Thessaloniki said such a decision could degrade the human and animal species as well as “.

However, the Archbishop of Athens, has distanced Ieronymos of the Holy Synod of the attitude on the issue of cohabitation between unmarried couples to say that the Church should be “open and less morally.”

Synod of the Church moves described by the Greek government Defacto or unmarried couples the same rights as their married counterparts as “catastrophic bomb” and threatened Greece and the removal of the company in relation to “prostitution”.

The Greek government hopes new legislation is to align similar laws in Europe.

The government of Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis that against homosexual marriage.

A survey released in December 2006 showed that 16% of Greeks questioned support gay marriage, and 11% recognize same-sex couple’s right to adopt.

These figures are well below the 27 member states of the European Union, on average, 44% and 33% in Greece to the location of the lowest ranks of the European Union with Poland, Latvia, Lithuania Bulgaria, Romania and Cyprus.

Homosexuals are still exercised within the military.

However, homosexuals and Greece are still at a greater say in their country in recent years, which had its heyday in the first Gay Pride Parade in 2005.

A Greek lesbian couple are due in Athens to try to marry, and a civil ceremony in the country, the first homosexual marriage.

The law does not expressly provide for a civilian who proclaim the union must be between a man and a woman, the couple they want to use.

The ceremony will take place in the quarter Kessariani Athens and the municipality of the office of mayor.