Amnesty International said on Thursday that it will try to prevent Romanias planned referendum aimed at changing the definition of "family" for this will "breach international human rights standards" and make it impossible to legalise same-sex unions.
Romanian senators voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to change article 48 of the nation's constitution to stipulate that the family is founded on the marriage between "a man and a woman", not between "spouses", as it currently states.