- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- Ambiguous
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Restricted
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- Ambiguous
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- Unknown
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Homosexual activity in Nord-Kivu is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Nord-Kivu is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Nord-Kivu is ambiguous.
While no law specifically prohibits consensual same-sex sexual conduct between adults, individuals engaging in public displays of consensual same-sex sexual conduct, such as kissing, were sometimes subject to prosecution under public indecency provisions, which were rarely applied to opposite-sex couples. A local NGO reported authorities rarely took steps to investigate, prosecute, or punish officials who committed abuses against LGBTQI+ persons, whether in the security forces or elsewhere in the government.
Identifying as LGBTQI+ remained a cultural taboo. LGBTQI+ individuals were subjected to harassment, stigmatization, and violence, including "corrective" rape. Some religious leaders, radio broadcasts, and political organizations played a key role in supporting discrimination against LGBTQI+ individuals.
Right to change legal gender in Nord-Kivu is illegal.
Gender-affirming care in Nord-Kivu is restricted.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Nord-Kivu is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Nord-Kivu is illegal in some contexts.
Articles 3 and 4 of the Law on the Protection of the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS and of those affected (2008) prohibit acts of stigmatization and discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS, their sexual partners, their children or parents based on their “proven or suspected HIV status”. Among those protected by the law under the category of “vulnerable groups”, Article 2(5) includes “homosexuals”.
Article 132 of Law 20/017 (2020) states: "The collection and processing of personal data revealing racial, ethnic or regional origin, parentage, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, sexual life, genetic data or, more generally, data relating to the state of health of the person concerned is prohibited."
LGBT employment discrimination in Nord-Kivu is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Nord-Kivu is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Nord-Kivu is illegal.
Also, article 20 of Law No. 09/001 on the Protection of the Child (2009) prohibits the adoption of a child by a homosexual couple in the same way as paedophiles and persons with psychological disorders.
Intersex infant surgery in Nord-Kivu is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Nord-Kivu is illegal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Nord-Kivu is ambiguous.
Conversion therapy in Nord-Kivu is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Nord-Kivu is unknown.