Recognition of Same-sex Relationships
See also: Same-sex marriage in Nepal
On 18 November 2008 the Supreme Court directed the government to enact laws enabling equal rights to LGBT citizens. While not explicitly legalising same-sex marriage, the ruling instructed the government to form a committee to look into same-sex marriage.. According to Indian media in 2009, a bill for this was being drafted and was supposed to be introduced by 2010. In the drafting of the new Nepalese constitution, same-sex marriage and protection for sexual minorities was supposed to be established. However, negotiations on the new Constitution failed and the Prime Minister dissolved the Constituent Assembly on May 28, 2012 in preparations for new elections. As a result, the future of same-sex marriage is uncertain.
In 2012 Nepal's Supreme Court recognized a live-in relationship between two lesbians despite the efforts of the family of one of the women to separate them. The Court allowed Rajani Shahi to live with her lover Prem Kumari Nepali as she wished, rather than with her husband.
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