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Human Rights Watch1y
Nepal Registers Same-Sex Marriage – A First
For the first time ever a municipality in Nepal has followed an interim order ... to form a committee to prepare a law legalizing same-sex marriage. In 2015 that committee recommended the ...
Los Angeles Times1y
Couple becomes first in Nepal to officially register same-sex marriage
KATHMANDU, Nepal — A couple in Nepal on Wednesday became the first in the nation to have their same-sex marriage legally recognized. The Himalayan nation is one of the few in Asia to allow same ...
Pew Research Center18d
Same-Sex Marriage Around the World
Parliament in the small mountainous country between France and Spain voted to legalize same-sex marriage. Voters supported ...
Human Rights Watch1y
Nepal’s Historic Achievement on Marriage Equality
Sunil Pant, who was previously Nepal’s first openly gay member of parliament ... to form a committee to prepare a law legalizing same-sex marriage. In 2015 that committee recommended the ...
Radio France Internationale1y
Nepal becomes first South Asian country to allow same-sex marriage
“Majority of them still find same-sex marriage to be unnatural, but with this court order, Nepal took its first step toward legalising same-sex marriage,” he said. In May, the supreme court ...
CNN1y
Nepal registers its first same-sex marriage
“It is historic,” said Pant, a former lawmaker, noting that it was the first ... same-sex marriage in Asia, where societies remain largely conservative. Hindu-majority Nepal has become ...
LGBTQ Nation1y
Nepal registers its historic first same-sex marriage
AFP via Getty Images Nepal has registered its first same-sex marriage after years of legal wrangling. It is the first South Asian country to recognize a same-sex marriage. Maya Gurung, a ...
Voice of America1y
Nepal Registers First Official Same-Sex Marriage in Country
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 ...
UPI1y
Nepal registers first legally recognized same-sex marriage
Nov. 29 (UPI) --Nepal on Wednesday became the first South Asian nation to officially recognize the legality of same-sex marriage when a 1997 marriage between a transgender woman and a gay man was ...
The Diplomat1y
Nepal Registers First Same-Sex Marriage
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 ...
Yahoo1y
Nepal registers first legally recognized same-sex marriage
File Photo by Narendra Shrestha/EPA-EFE Nov. 29 (UPI) --Nepal on Wednesday became the first South Asian nation to officially recognize the legality of same-sex marriage when a 1997 marriage ...