{"id":33908,"date":"2013-04-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ready-for-feedback3.com\/shape-history\/fmr\/world-homosexuality-laws\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T07:21:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T12:21:25","slug":"world-homosexuality-laws","status":"publish","type":"fmr_content","link":"https:\/\/www.fmreview.org\/ar\/world-homosexuality-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"World homosexuality laws (map)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Criminalisation of same-sex sexual acts around the world<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2012, 78 countries out of 193 still have legislation criminalising same-sex consensual acts between adults. This is an <strong>increase<\/strong> from the previous year (up to 78 from 76).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThough one \u2018new entry\u2019 \u2013 Benin \u2013 is due to our improved knowledge as to the laws of the country [\u2026], the other entry \u2013 South Sudan \u2013 represents a real disappointment: one would have hoped that the birth of a new country would have been also the occasion to improve the legislation inherited from the old country the new one was once part of.\u201d (See ILGA May 2012 report <em>State-sponsored Homophobia<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/ilga.org\/historic\/Statehomophobia\/State_sponsored_homophobia_ILGA_07.pdf\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ILGA-State-Homophobia-2012<\/a> )<\/p>\n<p>Iran, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Yemen and parts of Nigeria and Somalia have the death penalty for same-sex acts.<\/p>\n<p>This map in FMR 42 (pages 32-33) depicts world homosexuality laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Criminalisation of same-sex sexual acts around the world In 2012, 78 countries out of 193 still have legislation criminalising same-sex consensual acts between adults. 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