People around the world face vlence and equaly—and sometim torture, even executn—bee of who they love, how they look, or who they are. Sexual orientatn and genr inty are tegral aspects of our selv and should never lead to discrimatn or abe. Human Rights Watch works for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr peopl' rights, and wh activists reprentg a multiplicy of inti and issu. We document and expose ab based on sexual orientatn and genr inty worldwi, cludg torture, killg and executns, arrts unr unjt laws, unequal treatment, censorship, medil ab, discrimatn health and jobs and hog, domtic vlence, ab agast children, and nial of fay rights and regnn. We advote for laws and polici that will protect everyone’s digny. We work for a world where all people n enjoy their rights fully.
Contents:
- GAY RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD: WHERE ARE WE AT?
- GAY RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD: THE BT AND WORST UNTRI FOR EQUALY
- GAY RIGHTS
GAY RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD: WHERE ARE WE AT?
* gay rights around the world *
LGBT and LGBTQ+ have several addnal variatns, cludg LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, LGBTQIA+, and 2SLGBTQIA+ (Two-spir, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, qutng, tersex, and asexual, wh the + reprentg pansexual, agenr, genr queer, bigenr, genr variant, and pangenr). Another of the world's most gay-iendly untri, Swen has legalized both marriage and adoptn for same-sex upl, stalled anti-discrimatn protectns for both genr inty and sexual orientatn, end nstutnal protectns agast discrimatn, and crimalized vlence agast LGBTQ+ people. Image: REUTERS/Darren OrnzShare:Stay up to date:Genr InequalyLGBT rights like homosexual activy are still illegal some untri of the world Image: EqualxRecent chang laws regardg legalizatn of same sex marriage and siar LGBT rights Image: EqualxLegaly of genr changg LGBT rights is subject to surgery most untri.
If the legal stat of homosexualy is today a nsens France, where has been crimalized sce 1791, this is not the se many untri around the world where same-sex relatnships n be punished by var penalti, rangg om f to prison time or even the ath penalty. Laws are very different: while some parts of the world, lbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people n marry, adopt, and are legally protected om discrimatns, many untri still penalize homosexualy through forced labor, torture, prison terms, and even the pal punishment.
In France, when marriage for all was legalized 2017, “Le Pacte Civil Solidaré”, better known unr the name of PACS, had already been open to homosexual upl sce 1999 but did not provi the same rights as married upl the fields of work, social secury, e tax, property rights, or jot adoptn.
GAY RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD: THE BT AND WORST UNTRI FOR EQUALY
The followg untry profil are rived part om sectns of theHuman Rights Watch 2021 World Report that relate to the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr and (LGBT) people. * gay rights around the world *
In the Central Ain Republic, homosexualy is not illegal per se, but article 85 of the penal is sometim ed to arrt and nvict homosexual persons, punishg so-lled “unnatural” acts mted the public sphere, punishable by six months to two years prison and a fe of 150, 000 to 600, 000 CFA ancs. The rt of Indonia allows nsensual and private homosexual relatns, but homosexual people are victims of discrimatn and even vlence on the part of civil society and the police, and the ernment censors films and ntent nsired to be promotg homosexualy.
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<p><strong>Eme Saner: </strong>Equal marriage laws are beg passed several untri, but Rsia, life grows harsher each month for LGBT people. Which plac are bt and worst for gay rights?</p> * gay rights around the world *
In Bnei fally, nsired by OutRight Actn Internatnal as the most worryg Southeast Asian untry terms of LGBTQIA+ rights6, homosexualy is punishable, sce the applitn of Sharia law 2014, of imprisonment, rporal punishment amountg to torture, or the ath penalty by stong.
Human Rights Watch has documented anti-LGBT vlence and threats faced by gay men and trans women Antigua and Royal Police Force of Antigua and Barbuda has unrgone LGBTI sensizatn trag to better protect the rights of LGBTI people, facilated by Caribbean 2016, followg s UN Universal Perdic Review, the mister of social transformatn announced that she was willg to troduce to Cabet a remendatn to repeal the buggery laws, but as of 2021, they rema place Antigua and November 2019, the Eastern Caribbean Alliance for Diversy and Equaly announced planned to lnch a legal challenge agast the crimalizatn of private, nsensual same-sex sexual activy. Belas’ 2017 Law on the Protectn of Children om Informatn Harmful to their Health and Development may be ed to rtrict dissematn of ntral or posive rmatn about lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people as “discredg the stutn of the fay. ”Print Bolsonaro and other public officials subscribe to the notn that children are beg “doctrated, ” cludg by teachers, wh so-lled “genr iology, ” a vacuo tch-all term tend to note an ill-fed gay and femist nspiracy to wreak havoc on tradnal valu.
In rponse, May 2020, Bolsonaro vowed to send a bill banng “genr iology” to the Natnal Congrs, but has not yet done January 2020, the Supreme Court upheld eedom of exprsn and vated a lg by a R Janeiro judge orrg Netflix to take down a special featurg a “gay J. Dpe Colombia’s strong legal protectns on the basis of sexual orientatn and genr inty, the human rights ombudsperson has raised ncerns about high levels of vlence agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr rponse to the Covid-19 panmic, on April 8, 2020 the ernment of Bogotá tablished a genr-based quarante. ”For several months, Egyptians livg wh HIV, cludg gay men, faced obstacl to accsg HIV treatment as they feared retrievg their meditn om fever hospals, the only centers where people livg wh HIV n accs lifavg meditns, after the ernment signated them as treatment centers for Covid-19.