https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Couples who seek surrogacy abroad won't be able to register themselves as co-parents to their children in Italy, the country's highest court has ruled. https://www.thelocal.it/20190509/italy-wont-recognize-gay-couples-as-dads-to-surrogate-babies-top-court Thu, 09 May 2019 13:59:42 +0200 italy-wont-recognize-gay-couples-as-dads-to-surrogate-babies-top-court Bologna’s appeals court has ruled that an Italian-American woman’s US adoption of her wife's biological child is also valid in Italy, after it was initially rejected by the Bologna City Council and Italy’s Interior Ministry. https://www.thelocal.it/20180927/italian-appeals-court-upholds-validity-of-us-adoption-by-lesbian-couple Thu, 27 Sep 2018 19:45:00 +0200 italian-appeals-court-upholds-validity-of-us-adoption-by-lesbian-couple In a landmark ruling for LGBT rights, an Italian court has recognized two gay men as fathers to their adopted children. https://www.thelocal.it/20170309/italy-recognizes-first-adoption-by-two-gay-men Thu, 09 Mar 2017 15:10:06 +0100 italy-recognizes-first-adoption-by-two-gay-men A puppy who was saved from the rubble in earthquake-hit Norcia will soon be able to assist the firefighters that saved him, after being adopted by the fire service. https://www.thelocal.it/20161108/dog-saved-from-quake-rubble-will-become-a-firefighting-dog Tue, 08 Nov 2016 14:15:16 +0100 dog-saved-from-quake-rubble-will-become-a-firefighting-dog Italy's top court on Tuesday upheld a ruling granting permission for a Roman woman to adopt her female partner's seven-year-old daughter. https://www.thelocal.it/20160622/italys-top-court-lets-gay-woman-adopt-partners-child Wed, 22 Jun 2016 15:57:27 +0200 italys-top-court-lets-gay-woman-adopt-partners-child Two gay Italian women on Friday won the right to adopt each other's children in a legal first. https://www.thelocal.it/20160430/italian-women-win-gay-adoption-battle Sat, 30 Apr 2016 12:00:57 +0200 italian-women-win-gay-adoption-battle A Rome family court has approved a lesbian couple's request to simultaneously adopt each other's daughters in a legal first in Italy, gay groups said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160302/italy-tribunal-approves-lesbian-couples-adoption-of-each-others-children Wed, 02 Mar 2016 09:07:13 +0100 italy-tribunal-approves-lesbian-couples-adoption-of-each-others-children Gay activists have lambasted the Italian government for cutting the adoption provision from the civil unions bill. https://www.thelocal.it/20160225/anger-as-italy-cooks-gay-civil-unions-bill-making-children-second-class-citizens Thu, 25 Feb 2016 09:19:27 +0100 anger-as-italy-cooks-gay-civil-unions-bill-making-children-second-class-citizens Senators from the ruling Democratic Party have agreed to drop a measure that would have allowed gay people to adopt their partner’s biological children from the controversial civil unions bill. https://www.thelocal.it/20160224/italy-to-scrap-stepchild-adoption-from-gay-unions-bill Wed, 24 Feb 2016 09:48:11 +0100 italy-to-scrap-stepchild-adoption-from-gay-unions-bill Thirty senators from the ruling Democratic Party have opposed gay adoption as part of Italy’s civil unions bill, giving premier Matteo Renzi another hurdle in getting the landmark legislation passed. https://www.thelocal.it/20160114/gay-civil-unions-face-defeat-in-italy-as-left-wing-catholics-rebel Thu, 14 Jan 2016 17:25:20 +0100 gay-civil-unions-face-defeat-in-italy-as-left-wing-catholics-rebel An Italian appeals court has upheld the right of a lesbian woman to adopt her partner's biological child, a gay rights group said on Wednesday, in a landmark case for the Catholic country as it considers granting rights to same-sex couples. https://www.thelocal.it/20151224/italian-court-upholds-landmark-gay-adoption-decision Thu, 24 Dec 2015 12:04:26 +0100 italian-court-upholds-landmark-gay-adoption-decision Italian families are adopting fewer children from overseas because of the high cost and the lengthy time it takes for adoptions to be approved, according to a leading support group. https://www.thelocal.it/20150826/hight-cost-deters-italians-from-overseas-adoptions Wed, 26 Aug 2015 15:14:59 +0200 hight-cost-deters-italians-from-overseas-adoptions Italy’s ruling Democratic Party is moving towards including same-sex adoption in its upcoming civil unions law, but only if one of the partners in a gay couple is the child’s biological parent. https://www.thelocal.it/20150319/italy-moves-towards-gay-stepchild-adoption Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:11:54 +0100 italy-moves-towards-gay-stepchild-adoption Italy's supreme court has ruled that a baby born to a surrogate mother in Ukraine cannot be kept by the Italian couple who paid for it and must be put up for adoption, Italian media reports said Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20141112/child-taken-from-couple-who-paid-surrogate Wed, 12 Nov 2014 15:07:00 +0100 child-taken-from-couple-who-paid-surrogate Italy's Constitutional Court will make a landmark ruling on gay adoption, prompted by the case of an American-Italian lesbian couple and their two children. https://www.thelocal.it/20141112/italian-supreme-court-to-rule-on-gay-adoption-case Wed, 12 Nov 2014 11:30:00 +0100 italian-supreme-court-to-rule-on-gay-adoption-case UPDATED: A woman whose partner gave birth has been allowed to adopt the child in the first case of stepchild adoption involving a same-sex couple. It's been described by a rights group as an historic step for Italy. https://www.thelocal.it/20140829/first-gay-couple-in-italy-allowed-to-adopt-child Fri, 29 Aug 2014 16:29:00 +0200 first-gay-couple-in-italy-allowed-to-adopt-child Russian authorities have opened an investigation into the death of five-year-old boy adopted by an Italian family in a move that could jeopardize Italy's position as the leading destination for adopted Russian children. https://www.thelocal.it/20140721/russia-adoption-italy-murder-maxim-maravelle Mon, 21 Jul 2014 20:50:00 +0200 russia-adoption-italy-murder-maxim-maravelle Italy’s stifling bureaucracy has left 1,900 children waiting to be adopted, despite more than 31,000 couples being on the list of adoption agencies, according to a report by Gruppo CRC, a working group for the convention of children’s rights. https://www.thelocal.it/20140624/1900-children-languish-in-italys-adoption-system Tue, 24 Jun 2014 14:26:00 +0200 1900-children-languish-in-italys-adoption-system One of 48 Italians caught up in an adoption row in the Democratic Republic of Congo has expressed his fear at staying in the country, as fierce fighting rages in the capital Kinshasa. https://www.thelocal.it/20131231/italians-in-danger-in-dr-congo-capital Tue, 31 Dec 2013 11:16:00 +0100 italians-in-danger-in-dr-congo-capital Twenty-four couples from the southern Italian region of Puglia, who between them have adopted 32 children from the Democratic Republic of Congo, are stranded in the African nation after authorities suspended the issuance of exit permits for children adopted by foreign parents. https://www.thelocal.it/20131209/italians-stranded-in-congo-amid-adoption-setback Mon, 09 Dec 2013 12:01:00 +0100 italians-stranded-in-congo-amid-adoption-setback