Worst countries to be gay
Where are the most complicated places in the society to be gay or transgender?
Where are the most dangerous places in the world to be woman loving woman, gay, bisexual or trans person (LGBT)? It’s not an easy question to answer.
“Comprehensive data on hate crimes and state-sponsored violence against LGBT people is just non-existent in a lot of countries,” says Jessica Stern, executive director atOutRight International, an advocacy organization. “The most consistent aggression tends to actually be where there is the least government documentation [of violence], and the least civil society presence.” Homosexuality is still a crime in 72 countries (pdf). And even countries with no legal barriers, such as the US, register shocking levels of dislike crimes – there were 53 transgender murders from to and not a single one was prosecuted, for example. Based on the data that is available, here are seven of the countries where LGBT rights are most under threat – but where campaigners are also making the occasional minor step of progress.
Iraq
“It depends on what part of the country you are in – but in two words I’d describe Iraq as ‘not safe’ for LGBT people,” says Amir Ashour, Iraq’s only openly gay activist,
Rainbow Europe Map and Index
The Rainbow Europe Guide finds that over the past 12 months a new dynamic has appeared to fill in the gaps that exist around LGBTI rights and urge standards, giving governments land 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 attain second spot in the ranking. The reason for Denmark’s jump is that it is taking the lead in filling in anti-discrimination gaps in current legislation, including the equivalent treatment law, which covers health, education, employment, goods and services, and the penal code to encompass sexual orientation, gender self, 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 introduced a ban on intersex genital mutilation and France banned so-called ‘conversion therapy’ based on s
The worst countries in the world to be LGBT+
LONDON (REUTERS) - Brunei has sparked global criticism for saying it will execute syariah law this week, allowing homosexuality to be punishable by stoning to death.
The move will build it the seventh state to impose the death penalty for same-sex relationships, according to the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Gender non-conforming and Intersex Association (ILGA). Many more criminalise homosexuality.
Here are some of the world's worst countries to be LGBT+:
1. Six Merged Nations member states already impose the death penalty for consensual same-sex acts - Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Nigeria, Sudan and Somalia. Mauritanian law allows for a sentence of death by stoning, but the country has a de facto moratorium on capital punishment.
2. Sodomy and other same-sex acts are banned in Malaysia under Islamic law. Last year, two women found culpable were punished by caning in a case that sparked a global outcry.
3. Russia introduced a wide-ranging law banning gay "propaganda" to minors in as President Vladimir Putin pursued an increasingly conservative social agenda. Human rights groups say the law has fuelled attacks on homosexuals.
4. Sodomy h
Best and Worst Countries to be LGBT in Europe
&#; -- A gay male was found dead at his apartment in Azerbaijan in February last year. In May, a transsexual woman was beaten and robbed by two men and, at the finish of the year, a trans person was stabbed in the throat adjacent a metro station in the capital Baku.
These are just a few of several violent attacks targeting LGBT people in the nation of Azerbaijan last year, according to ILGA-Europe, the European Region of the International Lesbian, Homosexual, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association.
“Contrary to popular faith, LGBTI equality is far from being a done deal in Europe,” ILGA-Europe executive director Evelyne Paradis said speaking Tuesday in Copenhagen at the launch of the new index. “The picture is actually very mixed at the moment.”
One in four LGBTI people who live in the European Union possess faced violence, according to the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights.
The modern ILGA-Europe Rainbow Index ranks 49 European countries based on practices, laws and policies that have an impact on LGBTI people. This includes documented acts of violence.
After reviewing those policies and incidents from , the Rainbow Index ranked the
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