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May 15, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> For the second year in a row, Belarus has ranked 45th of 49 countries included on the 2024 Rainbow Map<\/a> of sexual minority rights in Europe and Central Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Compiled by the ILGA-Europe non-profit, the ranking showed that LGBTI people in Belarus had 11.2 percent of their rights secured compared with 12 percent in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of the seven indicators that form the ranking, Belarus scored the highest, 47 percent, in legal gender recognition, yet in the equality and non-discrimination category it remained below 4 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the categories of hate crimes, intersex bodily integrity, civil society space and asylum Belarus did not score anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Armenia (9.16 percent), Turkey (4.75 percent), Azerbaijan (2.25 percent) and Russia (2 percent) ranked worse than Belarus this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malta tops the ranking with almost 88 percent, followed by Iceland and Belgium with 83 and 78.5 percent, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among Belarus’ neighbors, Lithuania is leading with 27.5 percent, followed by Latvia, Ukraine and Poland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rainbow map is traditionally released ahead of International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia on May 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Belarusian long-time ruler Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka called homosexual men \u201cperverts\u201d and once famously said, \u201cIt is better to be a dictator than gay.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In late December 2022, Natalla Ka\u010danava, chair of the upper chamber of the Belarusian National Assembly, suggested following Russia in adopting anti-LGBTI propaganda legislation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also read: Belarusian LGBT+ community faces stigmatization \u2013 poll<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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