According to Amnesty International, at least 76 countries, which account for almost half the world’s population, continue to criminalize same-sex relationships. “Six countries (Mauritania, Sudan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Iraq) implement the death penalty for same-sex relations, as do some provinces in Nigeria and Somalia,” Amnesty says. Meanwhile, in the US, Human Rights Watch says 11 states still have unenforceable laws on their books prohibiting consensual same-sex conduct, despite a 2003 Supreme Court ruing that found such laws unconstitutional.
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