sexual orientation laws in the world

SEXUAL ORIENTATION LAWS IN THE WORLD - OVERVIEW
MAY 2016
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ILGA, THE INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS AND INTERSEX ASSOCIATION
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Europe
16 States
17 States
Norway
Iceland
Sweden
Finland
Russia
Estonia
Canada
Latvia
UK Denmark
Lithuania
NL
Belarus
Poland
Germany
BE
CZ Slovakia
Ukraine
Kazakhstan
LU
LI
Europe
AT
42 States and 13 entities
MD
HU
Mongolia
France CH
SI HR
Romania
Italy
BA RS
Bulgaria
Georgia Azerbaijan
Uzbekistan
Kosovo
Kyrgyzstan
Andorra
Spain
AL MK
Portugal
AM
Turkmenistan
Turkey
Tajikistan
Greece
SY
China
Tunisia
Malta
Cyprus
Iraq
Afghanistan
PL LB
Iran
Morocco
Gaza IL
Bhutan
KW
Algeria
Pakistan
Jordan
Nepal
Libya
Bahrain Qatar
Egypt
Western Sahara
UAE
Saudi Arabia
Myanmar
India
Laos
Sudan
Mauritania
Bangladesh
Oman
Mali
Niger
Thailand
Cape Verde
Senegal
Eritrea
Chad
Yemen
Vietnam
GM
Burkina
Cambodia
Djibouti
Guinea Bissau Guinea
Nigeria
Somalia
GH
South
Ivory
Sierra Leone
Ethiopia
Central African
TG
Maldives
Sudan
Brunei
Coast
Aceh
Sri Lanka
Liberia
Cameroon Republic
Benin
Malaysia
Province
Uganda
Equatorial Guinea
Singapore
Congo
Kenya
Sao Tomé & Principe
Gabon
RW
D.R.
Palembang
Congo
BI
South
Seychelles
Tanzania
Sumatra
Comoros
Angola
Malawi
Zambia
Ireland
USA
23 states
Coahuila
Mexico
Federal
District
The Bahamas
Dom. Rep.
Virgin Islands
Cuba
Puerto Rico
Jamaica
Belize
Haiti
AG
KN DM
Honduras
VC
Guatemala
LC
Nicaragua
GD BB
El Salvador
TT
Panama
Costa Rica
Venezuela
Guyana
SR GF
Colombia
Ecuador
Brazil
Peru
Bolivia
Zimbabwe Mozambique
Namibia
Madagascar
Botswana
Paraguay
Chile
Lesotho
South Africa
Argentina
North Korea
South Korea
Taiwan
Philippines
Palau
Nauru
Indonesia
Papua New
Guinea
Solomon
Islands
Kiribati
Tuvalu
Samoa
Timor-leste
Nothern
Australia
Mauritius
Western
Australia
Swaziland
Japan
Queensland
Norfolk Island
Australia
South
Australia
Uruguay
Cook Islands
Vanuatu
Fiji
Tonga
New South Wales
Victoria
Australian
Capital Territory
New Zealand
Tasmania
CRIMINALISATION
IMPRISONMENT
75 countries and 5 entities
DEATH PENALTY
13 States [or parts of]
Death penalty not known
to be implemented
Morality laws (religion-based) that
limit LGB freedom of expression and
association
Death penalty
Imprisonment 14 Y - Life
Imprisonment up to 14 years
Promotion (‘propaganda’) laws
limiting freedom of expression
No penalty specified
PROTECTION
ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAWS
76 countries and 85 entities
Includes employment, Constitution, other
non-discrimination protections, hate crime
and hate speech.
NO SPECIFIC LEGISLATION
Laws penalising same-sex sexual acts
decriminalised, or never existed
RECOGNITION
RECOGNITION OF SAME-SEX UNIONS
34 countries and 65 entities
JOINT ADOPTION
27 countries and 28 entities
SECOND PARENT ADOPTION
17 countries and parts of Italy
Marriage
Equal (almost equal)
substitute to marriage
Clearly inferior substitute to
marriage
The data represented in this map, and the three accompanying separate maps
on Criminalisation, Protection and Recognition, are based on State-Sponsored
Homophobia: a World Survey of Sexual Orientation Laws: Criminalisation,
Protection and Recognition, an ILGA report by Aengus Carroll. The report
and these maps are available in the six official UN languages: English,
Chinese, Arabic, French, Russian and Spanish on www.ilga.org. This edition of
the world map (May 2016) was coordinated by Aengus Carroll and Renato
Sabbadini (ILGA), and designed by Eduardo Enoki
([email protected]).