From a UN Development Programme statement:
In 62 countries, consensual same-sex sexual relations between adults in private are criminalized, with 12 of these countries even imposing the death penalty for such relations.
The 2025 edition of the Rainbow Map has been released:
https://rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org/
Here were some key findings:
- Conversion practices are only banned in 10 countries.
- 6 is the number of countries where LGBTI people do not have any protection from discrimination.
- Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Iceland, Montenegro, Serbia and Spain are the only countries that have full coverage of SOGIESC in their anti-discrimination legislations.
- Hate crime and hate speech on the grounds of sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics are prohibited in Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Iceland, Malta, and some regions in Spain and the UK.
- Marriage equality for same-sex couples is only available in 22 countries.
- 18 is the number of countries without any legal protection of same-sex partnerships.
- Trans parenthood is fully recognised only in 8 countries.
- Only Germany, Greece, Iceland, Malta, Portugal and Spain prohibit unnecessary surgical or medical interventions on intersex children.
- 11 countries still don’t have any legal or administrative procedure for legal gender recognition.
- In addition, Bulgaria, Hungary and Russia have laws that make legal gender recognition completely impossible.
- Only in 12 countries, trans people can have legal gender recognition based on self-determination.
- Freedom of assembly and association for LGBTI communities are restricted or under attack in at least 14 countries.
- Sexual orientation and gender identity are qualification criteria for seeking asylum in 27 countries. Intersex asylum seekers are protected in the law only in 6 countries.