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The French Constitutional Court has rejected a challenge to same-sex marriage and adoption rights.
17/05/2013 - France

France’s top court rejects same-sex marriage challenge

France’s Constitutional Council has cleared a bill allowing same-sex marriage and adoption rights, rejecting a challenge to the law.

24/04/2013 - France

Hollande calls for unity after France approves gay marriage

The French President, François Hollande, has called for “healing and unity” after France allowed same-sex marriage following months of bitter and divisive debate on the ...

23/04/2013 - France

French parliament adopts gay marriage law

The French parliament voted in favour of same-sex marriage and adoption on Tuesday after a grassroots campaign against the bill which mobilised hundreds of thousands, a spike in hate crimes ...

22/04/2013 - France

Threat sent to top parliamentarian over France's gay marriage bill

The Speaker of France's lower house of parliament on Monday received an envelope containing ammunition powder and a threatening letter telling him to delay Tuesday’s final vote on a bill ...

10/04/2013 - Report: France - Mali

French families press Mali to scrap ban on foreign adoption

As French troops fight armed Islamists in northern Mali, a group of French families is to lobby for a change in the African country’s civil code, amended in 2012, so that only Malian ...

French group lobbies for change in Mali's adoption law
10/04/2013 - On-the-spot France

French group lobbies for change in Mali's adoption law

A group of French families is lobbying for a change in Mali’s adoption laws, to reverse last year's ban on non-Malians adopting Malian children.

04/04/2013

French press review 4 April 2013

Boiled, fried or scrambled? How would you like your Cahuzac cooked this morning?

24/03/2013 - France

Work on the economy instead, anti- gay marriage protesters tell Hollande

Tens of thousands of people opposed to same-sex marriage have marched through Paris in a last-ditched attempt to prevent the bill becoming law, calling on President François Hollande to ...

24/03/2013 - France - South Korea

Korean-born French minister begins highly symbolic trip to land of her birth

The French Minister Fleur Pellerin has begun a highly anticipated visit to South Korea, the first time she has visited the country of her birth since being adopted as a child.

19/03/2013 - France

Paris police ban anti-gay marriage protest from Champs Elysées

Paris police have banned opponents of gay marriage from demonstrating on the world-famous Champs Elysées avenue on Sunday.

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