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Same-sex marriage has been provisionally recognised nationwide in Nepal since 24 April 2024. On 28 June 2023, Supreme Court Justice Til Prasad Shrestha directed the government to establish a "separate register" for "sexual minorities and non-traditional couples" and to "temporarily register them" until the final verdict by the full bench of the Supreme Court is issued.
On 13 July 2023, the Kathmandu District Court rejected a marriage registration application filed by a Nepali couple despite the historic order by a single judge bench of Justice Til Prasad Shrestha. "The court’s action is not only a blow to the sexual minority community, but it also dishonoured the Til Prasad Shrestha’s order, said Sunil ...
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 ...
Same-sex marriage became legal in Norway on 1 January 2009 when a gender-neutral marriage bill came into effect after being passed by the Norwegian legislature, the Storting, in June 2008. [ 106 ] [ 107 ] Norway became the first Scandinavian country and the sixth country in the world to legally recognize same-sex marriage.
Local authorities in a village in Nepal registered the Himalayan nation's first same-sex marriage on Wednesday, officials and activists said, five months after the Supreme Court issued an interim ...
Civil registration is the system by which a government records the vital events (births, marriages, and deaths) of its citizens and residents.The resulting repository or database has different names in different countries and even in different subnational jurisdictions.
The Mulukī Ain of 1854 is the foundational legal text for modern Nepal. [8] The laws remained largely unchanged until 1963. In 2018, the Mulukī Ain was replaced by the new criminal and civil codes, and their respective codes of procedure.
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