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The article reports on the New Jersey Supreme Court's ruling on October 25, 2006 that same-sex couples are entitled to legal recognition and to the same benefits that heterosexual couples acquire through marriage. The court has given lawmakers to 180 days to rewrite the laws to give equal benefits to same-sex couples.

The article reports on the decision of the British Columbia Court of Appeals regarding the right to women-only policy. The British Columbia Court of Appeals had ruled out that the Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter (VRR) has the right to accept only women to volunteer to counsel women. The ruling overturned a previous judgment by the Human Rights Tribunal that VRR could not discriminate Kimberly Nixon as a volunteer. Nixon is the transsexual-complainant in a case against VRR.