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Finland named ‘happiest country’
ACCORDING to the UN World Happiness Report 2023, published on Monday, March 20, Finland is once again the happiest country in the world. It maintains the top position for the sixth consecutive year.
The experts who prepare this annual report carried out surveys among the citizens of 137 countries and evaluated different factors. These included income, health, social connections, the feeling of free
Decision u-turn protests
IN 2018, Maria Silvia Fiengo and Francesca Pardi were among Italy’s first samesex couples to be registered as parents.
This was due to the progressive stance, of the mayor of Milan, Giuseppe Sala, which allowed children born to parents of the same gender to be acknowledged in the absence of clear national legislation.
This week, however, what was then seen as a major victory for equality and acceptance by the LGBT community was reversed.
Italy’s rightwing government instructed Milan’s city council to stop registering the children of samesex parents, reigniting a debate around Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s conservative agenda.
Children who are denied the right to have both parents recognised on their birth certificate are left in a legal limbo. Protests are set in Milan by families, activists and political rivals who are opposed to the ban.
