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Equal Opportunities for Same Sex Couples

Session 3 : Equality

Motion 32 )

Congress condemns the failure of Governments North and South to ensure that same sex couples have equal rights and opportunities

Congress is dismayed at the outrageous remarks directed against the Gay and Lesbian community by a Minister in the Northern Ireland Assembly. Congress also notes that gay and lesbian couples in the Republic of Ireland do not enjoy parity of esteem with their brothers and sisters in Northern Ireland, whose rights and civil liberties are enshrined in the Civil Partnership Act. The failure to enact a Civil Partnership Bill is indicative of the Government's approach to the Equality Agenda, reflected in the undermining of the equality infrastructure of the Republic of Ireland

Conference calls for a renewed campaign by the incoming Executive Council and by affiliate unions for legal recognition of the rights of same-sex couples. Congress reaffirms its commitment to defending the human rights of all minority groups, including members of the LGBT community, and denounces any attempt to discriminate against them or to denigrate them in any way.

(National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers & National Union of Journalists)

Proposing Union : NASUWT

Amendment :

Amend the first sentence as follows:

Conference calls for a renewed campaign by the incoming Executive Council and by affiliated unions for legal recognition of the rights of same sex couples and affirms civil marriage as the only option that affords equal rights to same sex couples.

Proposing Union : INMO

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