SaudiArabia

Iran

Pakistan

Afghanistan

Canada

Mexico

Jamaica

Cuba

Dominican Republic

Bahamas

Haiti Puerto Rico

Belize

El Salvador

Honduras

Nicaragua

Costa Rica PanamaVenezuela

Colombia

Ecuador

Peru

Ireland

Trinidad and Tobago

Grenada Barbados

St. Vincent and Grenadines St. Lucia

DominicaAntigua and Barbuda

St. Kitts and Nevis

Guyana

Fr. Guy.

Bolivia

ParaguayChile

France

SpainPortugal

UK

Belgium

Netherlands

Germany

Sweden

NorwayFinland

Poland

Ukraine

Belarus

Estonia

Latvia

Lithuania

Mol.

Romania

Lux.

Austria

Italy

India

Czechia

Slovakia

Hungary

B&H

CroatiaSlovenia

S. Marino

Vatican

Monaco

Cape Verde

Iceland

Greenland

Iraq

South Africa

MaliNiger

Chad

São Tomé and Príncipe

DemocraticRepublic of the CongoCongo

Gabon

EquatorialGuinea

Yemen

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Russian Federation

Sudan

Bhutan

Bangladesh

Sri Lanka

Maldives

Comoros

Madagascar

Tanzania

Zambia

Angola

Algeria

Morocco

Libya

Tunisia

Egypt

Australia

NewZealand

Papua New Guinea

Indonesia

Myanmar

VietnamThailand

Cambodia

Laos

Malaysia Brunei

Philippines

Taiwan (China)

China

Mongolia

Japan

North Korea

South Korea

Kazakhstan

Uzbekistan Kyrgyzstan

Turkmenistan Tajikistan

Azerbaijan

Georgia

ArmeniaTurkey

Syria

Greece

Jord.

Israel

Cyprus

Lebanon

Côte d'Ivoire

Nigeria

Cameroon

Burkina Faso

Liberia

Sierra Leone

GuineaGuinea Bissau

Senegal

Mauritania

South Sudan

Ethiopia

Eritrea

Somalia

KenyaUganda

NamibiaZimbabwe

Botswana

Western Sahara

Bulgaria

A

K

Serbia

NM

MAndorra

Malta

Mauritius

Seychelles

Marshall Islands

Federated Statesof Micronesia

Bahrain

UAE

Oman

Qatar

Palau

Solomon IslandsSamoa

Nauru

Kiribati

Tuvalu

Vanuatu

Fiji

Tonga

Cook Islands

Kuwait

Denmark

Palestine

Timor Leste

Criminalisation of consensual same-sex sexual acts between adults

Protection against discriminationbased on sexual orientation

Constitutional Protection

Broad Protection

Employment Protection

Limited/Uneven Protection

No Prot. / No Crim.

United States of America

Brazil

Ghana

Togo

Benin

Gambia

Argentina

Guatemala

Sur.

Mozambique

Malawi

Eswatini

Lesotho

Burundi

Rwanda

Djibouti

Central African Republic

Nepal

Swit.

Liecht.

MacauHong Kong

Uruguay

From criminalisation of consensual same-sex sexual acts between adults to protection against discrimination based on sexual orientation

Legal barriers to the exercise of rights

Legal barriers to freedom of expressionon SOGIESC issues

Legal barriers to the registration or operation of sexual orientation related CSOs

The data presented in this map is based on State-Sponsored Homophobia, an ILGA report by Lucas Ramón Mendos. This map can be reproduced and printed without permission as long as ILGA is properly credited and the content is not altered. ilga.org

Singapore

Legal recognition of families

Marriage or other forms of legal unionfor same-sex couples

Adoption open to same-sex couples (either jointly or via second parent adoption)

Up to 8 YearsImprisonment

30De FactoCriminalisation 2

10 Years toLife in Prison

26Death Penalty

6 (E) Effective

6 (P) Possible

(E)

(E)

(E)

(E)

(E)

(E)

(P)

(P)

(P)

(P)

(P)

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