- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ Imprisonment as punishment
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Banned
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- Unknown
- Housing Discrimination
- Unknown
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- Unknown
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- N/A
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Homosexual activity in North-West is illegal (imprisonment as punishment).
Same-sex marriage in North-West is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in North-West is imprisonment as punishment.
Section 264 of the Penal Code (2016) criminalises the public utterance of any “immoral speech” and the drawing of the public’s attention to any “occasion of immorality”. In light of the criminalisation of same-sex intimacy, a legal scholar has suggested that a publicly uttered speech advocating “unnatural sexual indulgence” would be considered “immoral”.
Right to change legal gender in North-West is illegal.
Gender-affirming care in North-West is banned.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in North-West is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in North-West is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in North-West is unknown.
LGBT housing discrimination in North-West is unknown.
Same-sex adoption in North-West is illegal.
Intersex infant surgery in North-West is not banned.
Serving openly in military in North-West is illegal.
Blood donations by MSMs in North-West is unknown.
Conversion therapy in North-West is not banned.
Equal age of consent in North-West is n/a.