A civil union (also known as a civil partnership) is a legally recognized arrangement similar to marriage, created primarily as a means to provide recognition...

(CSA), also known as the Confederacy or South, during the American Civil War. The Union was led by Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States...

Italy has recognised same-sex civil unions (Italian: unione civile) since 5 June 2016, providing same-sex couples with all of the legal protections enjoyed...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is an American nonprofit human rights organization founded in 1920. The organization strives "to defend and...

eight between two men and three between two women. This made up 2.7% of all unions performed those two years. The number of registered partnerships performed...

American Civil War, the United States Army, the land force that fought to preserve the collective Union of the states, was often referred to as the Union Army...

present-day France, only civil marriage has legal validity. A religious ceremony may be performed after or before the civil union, but it has no legal effect...

a civil solidarity pact (French: pacte civil de solidarité), commonly known as a PACS (pronounced [paks]), is a contractual form of civil union between...

continue to refuse to "licensing and performance of a civil marriage or the conversion of a stable union into a marriage between two people of the same sex"...

Civil partnership in the United Kingdom is a form of civil union between couples open to both same-sex couples and opposite-sex couples. It was introduced...