LESBIAN AND GAY RIgHTS IN THE WOrlD

ILGA, THE INTERNaTiONal INTErNATIONAl LESBiaN, LESBIAN, GaY, GAY, BiSEXUal, BISEXUAl, TRaNS TrANS aND AND INTERSEX INTErSEX ASSOCiaTiON ASSOCIATION
U. K. Norway Greenland Alaska Finland Russia Sweden Estonia 3 entities Denmark Canada Lithuania Latvia Poland Belarus Ireland Netherlands Germany Belgium Czech. Rep. Europe: Slovakia Ukraine Lux. Austria Kazakhstan Washington Moldova 41 countries Switzerland Slovenia Hungary Mongolia Maine Croatia Romania Wisconsin and 10 entities New Hampshire France Vermont Bosnia & Herz. Serbia Massachussets Oregon Mont. Kos. Bulgaria Georgia Andorra New York North Rhode Island Uzbekistan Kyrgyzstan Iowa Illinois Italy Connecticut Fyrom Portugal Spain Korea Armenia Azerb. Albania Nevada New Jersey Delaware Turkmenistan Washington, D.C. Turkey Tajikistan Colorado Maryland Greece Japan South Malta California Syria Gibraltar Cyprus China U.S.A. Korea Afghanistan Lebanon Tunisia Israel Morocco 32 states Iran Iraq Ghaza Nepal 19 states Jordan Canary Islands Kuwait Pakistan Coahuila Bhutan Algeria The Bahamas Libya Bahrain Egypt Dominican Rep. Qatar Bangladesh Saudi Mexico Taiwan U. A. E. Cuba Virgin Islands Arabia 10 states Myanmar Lao Federal District Haiti Mauritania India Jamaica Puerto Rico Vietnam Oman Mali Niger Sudan Belize Antigua & Barbuda Cape Verde St Kitts & Nevis Thailand Dominica Philippines Honduras Eritrea Yemen Senegal St. Vincent Chad St. Lucia Guatemala Gambia Burkina Grenada 6 cities El Salvador Cambodia Barbados Djibouti Faso Guinea-Bissau Trinidad and Tobago Nicaragua Benin Guinea South Costa Rica Palau Sri Lanka Ghana Nigeria Sierra Leone Venezuela Guyana Sudan Ethiopia Panama Ivory Coast Suriname Central African Maldives Liberia Togo Brunei French Guiana Aceh Province Republic Malaysia Colombia Cameroon Somalia Singapore Equatorial Guinea Uganda Congo Kenya Sao Tome & Principe Indonesia Rwanda Ecuador Gabon Seychelles Dem. Rep. Burundi of the Congo South Sumatra Peru Tanzania Timor-Leste Brazil Papua New Guinea 14 entities Comoros Malawi Angola Zambia Bolivia Mozambique
Vanuatu

Iceland

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Hawaii

PERSECUTION
IMPrISOnMEnT 71 countries and 5 entities* Death penalty Imprisonment from 14 years to a life-long sentence unclear: legislation not specically homophobic but which can be used as such Propaganda law restricting freedom of expression and association

Nauru Solomon Islands

Tuvalu

Kiribati

Samoa
Cook Islands

DEATH PEnALTY 5 countries and parts of Nigeria and Somalia

imprisonment up to 14 years imprisonment, no precise indication of the length / banishment Iraq: persecution by organised nonstate agents / India: law awaiting court ruling
Chile
Rosario

Paraguay

Namibia

Zimbabwe

Mauritius
Fiji

Botswana

Madagascar Swaziland
Western Australia

Australia
8 states

Norfolk Island

Tonga

South Africa Uruguay

Lesotho

New South Wales Australian Capital Territory Victoria Tasmania

Argentina
Buenos Aires

RECOGNITION
JOINT ADOPTION 14 countries and 38 entities* Marriage Equal (almost equal) substitute to marriage

RECOGnITIOn OF SAME-SEX UnIOnS 31 countries and 35 entities*

PROTECTION
ANTI-DISCRIMINaTION LaWS 65 countries and 85 entities* Countries which introduced laws prohibiting discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation

New Zealand

Clearly inferior substitute to marriage Joint adoption

NO SPECIFIC LEGISLATIOn

* These laws are aimed at lesbians, gay men and bisexuals and at same-sex activities and relationships. At times, they also apply to trans and intersex people. This edition of the world map (May 2013) was coordinated by Stephen Barris (ILGA). Design: Eduardo Enoki. Data represented in this map is based on State-Sponsored Homophobia: a world survey of laws. Criminalisation, protection and recognition of same-sex love - 2013, an ILGA report by Jingshu Zhu & Lucas Paoli Itaborahy available in various languages on www.ilga.org. ILGA thanks groups which contributed to the annual update.

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