The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognises the right to 'free and full' consent to a marriage while acknowledging that consent cannot be 'free and full' when one of the parties involved is ...

Young mothers with their children in Muktikot where child marriage has become more prevalent as subsistence farmers cope with a succession of droughts and floods that have destroyed harvests. All ...

Last April, Nepal became the first South Asian country to provisionally recognise same-sex marriage, and the second only to Taiwan in Asia. The Supreme Court ruling on Sunil Babu Pant and Others v ...

KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Tooting horns and ringing chimes, hundreds of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transvestites paraded through Nepal’s capital Monday for a colorful celebration of Gaijatra, a Hindu ...

Kathmandu, July 30 -- The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has recommended the Nepal government to lower the current minimum age for marriage even as ...