The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department has announced that over 10,000 civil marriage applications were submitted by foreigners to ...

Over 10,000 civil marriage applications from foreigners were submitted to the Civil Family Court in Abu Dhabi during the ...

Civil marriage? A joke. Same-sex marriage? A far-fetched fantasy. However, others believe the situation can and indeed should be changed, preferably sooner rather than later.

Nor is it to deny that we have a civil right to the legal incidents of marriage Ñ and thus to civil unions. These should be our focus now. Many of us have long viewed civil unions as a compromise: ...

With the advent of civil marriage equality, this discrimination has been both alleviated and reinforced. Same-sex couples can now marry but opposite-sex couples remain banned from civil partnerships.