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Travelers can face singular challenges abroad based on their real or perceived sexual orientation. Laws and attitudes in some countries may affect safety and ease of travel. 

More than 60 countries consider consensual same-sex relations a crime. In some of these countries, people who employ in consensual same-sex relations may face severe punishment. Many countries do not distinguish same-sex marriage.

Research your destination before you travel 

Review the tour advisory and destination facts page of the place you plan to call on. Check the Local Laws & Customs section.  This has information specific to travelers who may be targeted by discrimination or violence on the basis of sexual orientation.  

Many countries only recognize male and female sex markers in passports. They undertake not have IT systems at ports of entry that can accept other sex markers, including valid U.S. passports with an X sex marker. If traveling with a valid U.S. passport with an X sex marker, examine the immigration regulations for your destination as acceptance can v

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Criminalisation:

  • Criminalises LGBT people
  • Criminalises sexual activity between males
  • Criminalises sexual activity between females
  • Imposes the death penalty

Maximum punishment:

Death penalty

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Criminalisation:

  • Criminalises LGBT people
  • Criminalises sexual activity between males

Maximum punishment:

Life imprisonment

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Criminalisation:

  • Criminalises LGBT people
  • Criminalises sexual activity between males
  • Criminalises sexual outing between females
  • Criminalises the gender expression of trans people
  • Imposes the death penalty

Maximum punishment:

Death by stoning

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Criminalisation:

  • Criminalises LGBT people
  • Criminalises sexual activity between males
  • Criminalises sexual activity between females
  • Criminalises the gender expression of transitioned people
  • Maintains discriminatory age of consent

Maximum punishment:

Eight years imprisonment and lashes

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Criminalisation:

  • Criminalises

    Rainbow Europe Map and Index

    The Rainbow Europe Map finds that over the past 12 months a new dynamic has appeared to fill in the gaps that exist around LGBTI rights and push standards, giving governments ground to build upon as democracy in Europe faces exceptional challenges.

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    This year we observe positive movement on the Rainbow Map and Index, notably:

    • Denmark has jumped seven places to achieve second detect in the ranking. The reason for Denmark’s jump is that it is taking the manage in filling in anti-discrimination gaps in current legislation, including the equal treatment law, which covers health, education, employment, goods and services, and the penal code to include sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics as aggravating factors in hate crime.
    • More countries are pushing forward for equality by giving due recognition and protection for people’s lived realities. Iceland was awarded points because of its legislative recognition of trans parenthood, among other things, while Germany introdu

      ILGA World maps are among the most shared visual representations of how LGBTIQ people are affected by laws and policies around the world.

      The scope of our long-standing rights mapping has expanded thanks to the ILGA Planet Database. With that platform, ILGA maps have become interactive and constantly updated, to better cover sexual orientationrefers to a person’s capacity for profound emotional, affectional and sexual attraction to - and intimate and sexual relations with - individuals of a other gender or the matching gender or more than one gender. More, gender identityrefers to a person’s deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender, which may or may not correspond with the sex assigned at birth. More and expression, and sex characteristicsa term that refers to physical features relating to sex - including genitalia and other sexual and reproductive anatomy, chromosomes, hormones, and secondary physical features emerging from puberty. More (SOGIESCabbreviation standing for sexual orientation and gender identity & utterance, and sex characteristics. More)