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Up to 64 countries still criminalize same-sex sexual acts despite legislative advances made in recent decades, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Association (ILGA), which regularly

Homosexual acts are still prosecuted in 64 countries.

Up to 64 countries still criminalize same-sex sexual acts despite legislative advances made in recent decades, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Association (ILGA), which regularly monitors the issue, denounced today.

The Geneva Federation recalled today that people from LGBTI team they still face the death penalty for their sexual orientation in six United Nations states (Brunei, Mauritania, Iran, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and Yemen).

In addition, in five more (Afghanistan, the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Qatar and Somalia), the safety of these people is not guaranteed by law.

ILGA also notes that 51 UN countries still have rules in place that violate freedom of expression regarding gender and sexual diversity.

In eleven of these territories, these laws govern the treatment of the subject LGBTI in education and in another 25 countries, media content is specifically regulated.

The administrative barriers faced by the people of the group and organizations that protect their rights are very strict in the 55 US states. United Nationsaccording to ILGA.

On the other hand, the association acknowledges that conversion therapy they are banned at the national level in only eleven countries, while same-sex marriage is recognized in 33 UN member states and Taiwan.

Adoption of children through homosexual couples this is only possible in about thirty countries of the United Nations.

With regard to the legal recognition of gender self-determination, only 20 states allow it throughout their territory, while the option of defining oneself as non-binary gender it exists in official documents in twenty more UN countries.

ILGA is made up of over 1,800 LGBT associations from over 160 countries and territories around the world.

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Source: Aristegui Noticias

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