The Civil Code 2017 states that the minimum age for marriage—for both women and men—in Nepal is 20. Though the country ...

Nepal’s Maya Gurung (R) and Surendra Panday wear traditional attire as they take part in a gay Pride parade in Kathmandu, Nepal, in August. On Wednesday, their marriage became the first officially ...

In the wake of 16 days of activism against Gender-Based Violence (GBV), The Himalayan Times interacted with women activists to know their observations regarding GBV in Nepal.

In Nepal, a cisgender man and a transgender woman, legally considered a man, became the first couple in South Asia to have their "same-sex" marriage legally recognized. In late November, Surendra ...

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 ...

Image by Todd Franson Subscribe free to Metro Weekly’s digital magazine for the stories that matter most. A battle six years in the making was finally won as Maya Gurung and Surendra Pandley’s ...

Same-sex couple Surendra Pandey, right, and Maya Gurung in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, June 29, 2023. Credit: AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha “We are going to fight until the very end!” said Surendra ...

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 Constitution of Nepal, adopted in 2015, explicitly states that there can be no discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Five months after the Supreme Court legalised it, Nepal on ...

The marriage between 36-year-old Ram Bahadur (Maya) Gurung, who was born male but identifies as female, and Surendra Pandey, 26, who was born and identifies as male, was formally registered at the ...