In 2006, same-sex couples were granted equal rights with their heterosexual counterparts without limitation.
Two somewhat older marriage contracts, for example, granted equal rights to both partners, even in divorce.
Women would also be granted equal rights to ask for a divorce and equal claims to assets acquired during the marriage, rather than just their personal property.
But 11 years later that population began to shrink when the Jews of a unified Italy were granted equal rights and allowed to move freely about the country.
If a fetus is granted equal rights, women who become pregnant may find their most personal decisions coming under state control.
IT'S a puzzle: one dispossessed group after another — blacks, women, Hispanics and gays — has been gradually accepted in the United States, granted equal rights and brought into the mainstream.
Enacted by Zahir Shah, then king, that constitution limited the monarch's absolute power through the creation of a parliament and the clear separation of powers, and granted equal rights to men and women.
It was only sixteen years ago that women were granted equal rights in the workplace, and young women who wish to have a serious career still find that acquiring a husband, not to mention having a child, can be a quick route to professional decline.
With the Constitution of 1953, the colonial status of Greenland came to an end, and Greenlanders were granted equal rights as citizens within the Danish realm.
The Ottomans abandoned the legal pluralism of the "millet" system (a faith-community framework) in the 19th Century and adopted a citizenship model that granted equal rights to all, irrespective of religion.
