Costa Rica to allow gay couples to share health benefits
Costa Rica to allow gay couples to share health benefits
World | Agence France-Presse | Updated: May 24, 2014 02:38 IST
San Jose: Costa Rica's social security administration has agreed to allow same-sex couples to share health and pension benefits, even though the conservative Central American country bans gay marriage.
The decision, announced on Thursday by the agency, comes in response to a long-standing demand from the gay rights movement in the religious country.
Centrist President Luis Guillermo Solis - elected at the beginning of April - cheered the decision.
"Costa Rica woke up to good news," Solis wrote Friday on a social network.
"I feel very satisfied with the decision by social security to authorize the enrollment of same-sex couples and the fundamental right to access at the hospital."
Solis has already sparked controversy by his outspoken support for the homosexual community, receiving at government offices a delegation from the gay rights movement last week and raising the rainbow flag for the International Day Against Homophobia.
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