Gay rights by country
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[edit] See also
Recognition of same-sex couples: this law can have five types:
- Civil marriage, or same-sex marriage - Give all the same rights and responsibilities as opposite-sex marrige. (e.g. Belgium.)
- Registered Partnership - The Scandinavian model, giving nearly all the same rights and responsibilities as marriage with some exeptions, like adoption right, and use different name, include wedding ceremony. (e.g. Norway)
- Civil union - Gives registered partners just part of rights and responsibilities similar to marriage, exclude wedding ceremony. (e.g.France)
- Unregistered Cohabitation - it give just some of rights and responsibilities similar to marriage, for informal cohabiting same-sex couples. Wedding ceremony are not performed. (e.g.Portugal)
- Domestic partnership - it give just several rights for cohabiting same-sex couples. In most, they are result of court decisions in those cases. Like adoption right, immigration right, government pension itc. (e.g. Israel)
Except of those five types of recognition of same-sex couples, there where some individual cases, when court recognised some right to same-sex partner. e.g. The court in Mexico recognised lesbian right to compensation, after her lesbian partner died in 2005.
[edit] Countries
| Gay Rights in America |
| Countries: |
| 1. United States |
| 2. Brazil |
| 3. Mexico |
| 4. Colombia |
| 5. Argentina |
| 6. Canada |
| 7. Peru |
| 8. Venezuela |
| 9. Chile |
| 10. Guatemala |
| 11. Ecuador |
| 12. Cuba |
| 13. Dominican Republic |
| 14. Bolivia |
| 15. Haiti |
| 16. Honduras |
| 17. Salvador |
| 18. Paraguay |
| 19. Nicaragua |
| 20. Costa Rica |
| 21. Uruguay |
| 22. Panama |
| 23. Jamaica |
| 24. Trinidad and Tobago |
| 25. Guyana |
| 26. Suriname |
| 27. The Bahamas |
| 28. Belize |
| 29. Barbados |
| 30. Saint Lucia |
| 31. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
| 32. Grenada |
| 33. Dominica |
| 34. Antigua and Barbuda |
| 35. Saint Kitts and Nevis |
| Other regions: |
| 1. Puerto Rico |
| Gay Rights in Oceania |
| 1. Australia |
| 2. Papua New Guinea |
| 3.New Zealand |
| 4. Fiji |
| 5. Salomon Islands |
| 6. Vanuatu |
| 7. Samoa |
| 8. Micronesia |
| 9. Tonga |
| 10. Kiribati |
| 11. Marshall Islands |
| 12. Palau |
| 13. Nauru |
| 14. Tuvalu |
| Other regions: |
| 1. Niue |
| Gay Rights in Africa |
| Countries: |
| 1. Nigeria |
| 2. Egypt |
| 3. Ethiopia |
| 4. Democratic Rep. of the Congo |
| 5. South Africa |
| 6. Sudan |
| 7. Tanzania |
| 8. Morocco |
| 9. Algeria |
| 10. Kenya |
| 11. Uganda |
| 12. Ghana |
| 13. Mozambique |
| 14. Madagascar |
| 15. Côte d'Ivoire |
| 16. Cameroon |
| 17. Burkina Faso |
| 18. Zimbabwe |
| 19. Mali |
| 20. Malawi |
| 21. Niger |
| 22. Senegal |
| 23. Angola |
| 24. Zambia |
| 25. Tunisia |
| 26. Chad |
| 27. Guinea |
| 28. Somalia |
| 29. Rwanda |
| 30. Benin |
| 31. Burundi |
| 32. Sierra Leone |
| 33. Libya |
| 34. Togo |
| 35. Eritrea |
| 36. Central African Republic |
| 37. Liberia |
| 38. Mauritania |
| 39. Republic of the Congo |
| 40. Namibia |
| 41. Lesotho |
| 42. The Gambia |
| 43. Botswana |
| 44. Guinea-Bissau |
| 45. Gabon |
| 46. Mauritius |
| 47. Swaziland |
| 48. Comoros |
| 49. Equatorial Guinea |
| 50. Djibouti |
| 51. Cape Verde |
| 52. São Tomé and Príncipe |
| 53.Seychelles |
| Other regions: |
| 1. Western Sahara |
| 2. Réunion |
| 3. Saint Helena |
| 4. Mayotte |
| Gay Rights in Asia |
| Countries: |
| 1. China |
| 2. India |
| 3. Indonesia |
| 4. Pakistan |
| 5. Bangladesh |
| 6. Japan |
| 7. Philippines |
| 8. Vietnam |
| 9. Iran |
| 10. Turkey |
| 11. Thailand |
| 12. South Korea |
| 13. Myanmar |
| 14. Afghanistan |
| 15. Nepal |
| 16. Uzbekistan |
| 17. Saudi Arabia |
| 18. Iraq |
| 19. Malaysia |
| 20. North Korea |
| 21. Yemen |
| 22. Sri Lanka |
| 23. Syria |
| 24. Kazakhstan |
| 25. Cambodia |
| 26. Azerbaijan |
| 27. Tajikistan |
| 28. Israel |
| 29. Laos |
| 30. Jordan |
| 31. Kyrgyzstan |
| 32. Turkmenistan |
| 33. Georgia |
| 34. Singapore |
| 35. Lebanon |
| 36. Armenia |
| 37. Oman |
| 38. Mongolia |
| 39. United Arab Emirates |
| 40. Kuwait |
| 41. Bhutan |
| 42. East Timor |
| 43. Qatar |
| 44. Cyprus |
| 45. Bahrain |
| 46. Brunei |
| 47. Maldives |
| Other regions: |
| 1. Hong Kong |
| 2. Macau |
