Nepal’s Supreme Court orders government to register same-sex marriages

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Nepal’s Supreme Court has ordered the government to allow same-sex couples to legally register their marriages, paving the way for marriage equality in the South Asian country.

While Nepal’s civil code still defines marriage as between a man and a woman, the order issued by Justice Til Prasad Shrestha on June 30 also calls for amendments to the 2017 code’s provisions related to marriage, The Himalayan reports.

As Human Rights Watch notes, in 2007 the country’s Supreme Court ordered the government to form a committee to prepare a law legalizing same-sex marriage. That committee recommended that the government “grant legal recognition to same-sex marriage on the basis of the principle of equality” in 2015. But legislation legalizing same-sex marriage has yet to be introduced.

Earlier this year, Nepal’s Supreme Court ordered the government to…

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