- Homosexuality⚢✔ Legal
- Marriage⚭Ambiguous
- Changing Gender✔ Legal, but requires surgery
- Adoption✖ Single only
- DiscriminationIllegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Military✔ Legal
- Age of Consent✔ Equal
- Donating Blood✖ Banned (1-year deferral)
- Conversion Therapy✖ Not banned
History
Current status
(since Dec 21, 2007)
(since Dec 21, 2007)
Legal
Current status
(since Oct 10, 2017)
(since Oct 10, 2017)
Single only
No restrictions. No laws in place for same sex couples.
Current status
(since Jan 1, 2016)
(since Jan 1, 2016)
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Under Nepal Criminal Code.
Current status
(since Jan 1, 2016)
(since Jan 1, 2016)
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Under the revision of the Nepal Criminal Code.
Current status
(since Jan 1, 2007)
(since Jan 1, 2007)
Legal
No
Current status
Equal
Nepal statutory rape law is violated when an individual has consensual sexual contact with a person under age 16. This law is applicable to both heterosexual couples, and homosexual men. There is no age of consent for homosexual women.
Current status
(since Aug 15, 2015)
(since Aug 15, 2015)
Not banned
No
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