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The Thai House of Representatives approved Wednesday an equal marriage bill, with 400 favouring votes out of 415 members of the house. The bill still requires approval from the Senate and endorsement from the king. If the Senate and the king approve the legislation, Thailand will become the third Asian country/region that recognises same-sex marriage, after [...]

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 order is expected to have an impact on an upcoming verdict regarding a similar plea at the Supreme Court of India. Despite India’s decriminalization of queer [...]

The Supreme Court of Nepal Tuesday instructed the government to legally recognize same-sex marriage. They further recommended a five-step plan in order to allow same-sex couples and non-cisgender individuals to get married in line with a 2015 court-ordered report, which has not yet been acted upon by the government. In the latest of many recent [...]

Introduction The Indian government has tabled the Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill, 2021 in the Lok Sabha, a bill aimed at increasing the minimum legal age of marriage for girls from 18 to 21 years. This bill will amend the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006, which prohibits child marriages in India. The 2006 act provides a different minimum [...]

Chile legalized same-sex marriage on Tuesday as societal norms in the predominantly Catholic country shift. The bill was first introduced in Congress in 2017. Chile’s Congress passed the bill with majorities in both chambers, making it the eighth Latin American country and the thirty-first worldwide to allow same-sex marriage. After a decade-long legal battle, the [...]

The Supreme Court of Texas held on Friday that the Houston's benefits policy need not extend to same-sex couples. In so holding, the Court concluded that: "The Supreme Court held in Obergefell that the Constitution...

The lower house of the German Parliament voted 393-226 Friday to legalize same-sex marriage. The decision came shortly after Chancellor Angela Merkel changed her conservative stance on the issue. Although Merkel voted against the...

The lower house of the German Parliament on Thursday passed a bill to compensate thousands of individuals who had been persecuted and imprisoned for their sexuality. The law under which the individuals had been convicted...

Taiwan's constitutional court, the Judicial Yuan , declared on Wednesday that same-sex marriages will be legally recognized. The court has given two years for the legislature to make amendments allowing same-sex marriage, and a draft of the bill [AI...

Nigerian prosecutors in Kaduna on Wednesday charged 53 men for celebrating an LGBTQ wedding in violation of the state's law against 'unlawful assembly' and the Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act . The men were arrested last Saturday, and were released...