Hundreds of same-sex couples in Nepal will soon be able to legally register their marriages following a landmark Supreme Court ruling on June 28 which cleared the way for marriage equality in the ...

“Same-sex marriage is against natural law, social norms and culture,” tweeted Kamal Thapa, a former deputy prime minister and an influential politician in overwhelmingly Hindu Nepal.

Nepal has registered its first same-sex marriage, which activists hailed as a victory for LGBT rights. Authorities in the western Lumjung district formally registered the union of Maya Gurung ...

“I cannot watch her get trapped in an early marriage like I did,” she said. Bali’s daughter is among millions of adolescent girls in Nepal who women’s rights activists fear could be at an ...

A gay couple in Nepal on Wednesday became the first in the nation to receive official same-sex marriage status. The Himalayan nation is one of the first in Asia to allow it. “After 23 years of ...

On November 29, Nepal registered its first same-sex marriage between Ram Bahadur (Maya) Gurung and Surendra Pandey. With this, the country has become the second in Asia — after Taiwan — to ...

In Asia, Taiwan is the only place that recognises gay marriage, though pressure is building for reform in Japan, Thailand and South Korea. In 2007, Nepal's Supreme Court ordered the government to ...

The Nepal Supreme Court’s June 28 ruling requiring the government to register same-sex relationships follows an arduous struggle to achieve marriage equality in the South Asian nation. This historic ...

LONDON: Nepal is the latest country to join the global wave of marriage equality. On June 28, its Supreme Court ruled that the government must immediately offer temporary registration of same-sex ...