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Nepal: Gay Rights

August 31, 2015;

Hundreds of people danced in the streets of Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, to press for their demands for gay rights to be enshrined in the constitution. The protesters are demanding same-sex marriage, and gay couples’ rights to adopt and to buy joint property or inherit from one another. Nepal decriminalised homosexuality in 2007. It remains illegal in many South Asian countries.

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