41.   It has prompted a lot of debate around the country about granting benefits to couples who want legal recognition and protection for their long-term relationships.

42.   Several banners made reference to a bill, to be debated later this year in parliament, which would give new legal recognition to homosexual couples and unwed heterosexuals.

43.   Several leading religious groups, meanwhile, have also come out against the legal recognition of brain death.

44.   The Homerosz Lambda Organization, one of several gay activist groups in Hungary, requested the review in hopes of gaining legal recognition of homosexual marriages.

45.   The government has refused to give legal recognition to the Khmer Nation Party, established last November, claiming it did not follow proper registration procedures.

46.   The group operates an office in Istanbul but lacks formal legal recognition.

47.   The most prominent opposition grouping, the Khmer Nation Party, has failed to obtain legal recognition because the government says it failed to follow proper registration procedures.

48.   The protesters were seeking legal recognition for the group.

49.   Two Britons who became women in sex-change operations on Wednesday won the backing of European human rights authorities in their battle for full legal recognition.

50.   Under the new law enacted in October, Japan joined the rest of the industrialized world in granting legal recognition for brain death.