LGBT Rights in Dolneni Municipality

Dolneni is governed by federal North Macedonia law. Learn more
    Homosexuality
    ✔ Legal
    Gay Marriage
    ✖ Unrecognized
    Censorship
    ✔ No censorship
    Changing Gender
    ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
    Gender-Affirming Care
    ✔ Legal
    Non-Binary Gender Recognition
    ✖ Not legally recognized
    Discrimination
    ✔ Illegal
    Employment Discrimination
    ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
    Housing Discrimination
    ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
    Adoption
    ✖ Single only
    Intersex Infant Surgery
    ✖ Not banned
    Military
    ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
    Donating Blood
    ✔ Legal
    Conversion Therapy
    ✖ Not banned
    Age of Consent
    ✔ Equal
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History

Homosexual activity in Dolneni

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Homosexual activity in Dolneni is legal.

Current status
Since Nov 1, 1996
Legal
The Criminal Code of the Republic of Macedonia adopted on July 23, 1996 decriminalized consensual homosexual intercourse between men.
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Jul 1, 1977–Oct 31, 1996
Male illegal, female legal
The Criminal Code of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia (as part of the SFRY) adopted on June 16, 1977 criminalized unnatural fornication between men.
Article 101, paragraph (2): for unnatural fornication between persons of the male sex, the perpetrator will be punished by imprisonment for up to one year.
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Jul 1, 1951–Jun 30, 1977
Male illegal, female legal
The Criminal Code of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia adopted on February 27, 1951 criminalized consensual sexual intercourse between men throughout its territory, including North Macedonia.
Article 186: for unnatural fornication between persons of the male sex, the perpetrator shall be punished with imprisonment for up to two years.
The 1959 amendment reduced the prison sentence by one year.
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Jan 1, 1930–Jun 30, 1951
Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)
The Criminal Code for the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Kingdom of Yugoslavia as of October 3, 1929) adopted on January 27, 1929 criminalized "unnatural fornication" without specifying the definition of the mentioned term.
Paragraph 285: for unnatural fornication between persons, the perpetrator shall be punished with strict imprisonment, unless the act turns into a more serious crime.
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Aug 31, 1913–Dec 31, 1929
Male illegal, female legal
The Penal Code of the Kingdom of Serbia (North Macedonia was part of it at that time) passed on March 29, 1860 criminalized sex between men.
Paragraph 206: Unnatural fornication between persons of the male sex to be punished by imprisonment from six months to four years and loss of civil honor.
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Same-sex marriage in Dolneni

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Same-sex marriage in Dolneni is unrecognized.

Current status
Since Nov 1, 1996
Unrecognized
There is no definition of marriage in the 1991 Constitution.
Article 40: "Legal relations in marriage, family and cohabitation are regulated by law."

Family Law from 1992, article 6: "Marriage is a legally regulated union of life between a husband and wife in which the interests of the spouses, the family and society are realized."
Until Oct 31, 1996
Banned
Male homosexuality was illegal before this date in North Macedonia.
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Censorship of LGBT issues in Dolneni

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Censorship of LGBT issues in Dolneni is no censorship.

Current status
No censorship
In Macedonia, there are no laws restricting the discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics.
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Right to change legal gender in Dolneni

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Right to change legal gender in Dolneni is legal, but requires surgery.

Current status
Since Jan 2019
Legal, but requires surgery
In January 2019, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that North Macedonia's requirement that transgender people undergo sex reassignment surgery before their gender marker on ID documents can be changed is a violation of human rights. The judgment held that deficiencies in North Macedonia's laws concerning modifying gender on official identification documents infringed the private life of transgender Macedonians.

This means that at the moment, there is no way to change one's legal gender in North Macedonia, even after surgery.

Gender-affirming care in Dolneni

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Gender-affirming care in Dolneni is legal.

Current status
Since 2006
Legal
In 2006, North Macedonia adopted the ICD-10 classification, which contains codes for diagnosing transsexualism in adulthood and childhood, which authorize the initiation of medical transition.
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Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Dolneni

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Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Dolneni is not legally recognized.

Current status
Not legally recognized
No legal recognition.
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LGBT discrimination in Dolneni

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LGBT discrimination in Dolneni is illegal.

Current status
Since Oct 30, 2020
Illegal
On October 27, 2020, the Parliament of North Macedonia adopted a new Law on Prevention and Protection from Discrimination, which prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in all areas.
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May 28, 2020–Oct 29, 2020
Illegal in some contexts
On 14 May 2020, Constitutional Court of North Macedonia repealed the Law on Prevention and Protection from Discrimination on procedural grounds, meaning that LGBT people were no longer (explicitly) protected group. The only protection existed in laws that prohibited discrimination in certain areas of life and mentioned sexual orientation or gender identity as a basis.
May 22, 2019–May 27, 2020
Illegal
On May 16, 2019, the Parliament of North Macedonia adopted a new (short-lived) Law on Prevention and Protection from Discrimination, which prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in all areas.
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Aug 5, 2005–May 21, 2019
Illegal in some contexts
Aricle 6 of the 2005 Labour Law prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
The 2010 Law on Prevention and Protection against Discrimination prohibited discrimination in general but sexual orientation and gender identity were not explicitly mentioned grounds.
Until Aug 4, 2005
No protections
Until 2005, North Macedonia had no legal protections specifically aimed at LGBT rights.
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LGBT employment discrimination in Dolneni

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LGBT employment discrimination in Dolneni is sexual orientation and gender identity.

Current status
Since Oct 30, 2020
Sexual orientation and gender identity
The 2020 Law on Prevention and Protection against Discrimination prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in Employment, among other areas.
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May 28, 2020–Oct 29, 2020
Sexual orientation only
The only protection against discrimination in Employment in this period existed in the Labour Law.
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May 22, 2019–May 27, 2020
Sexual orientation and gender identity
The 2019 Law on Prevention and Protection against Discrimination prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in Employment, among other areas.
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Aug 5, 2005–May 21, 2019
Sexual orientation only
Aricle 6 of the 2005 Labour Law prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
The 2010 Law on Prevention and Protection against Discrimination prohibited discrimination in Employment but sexual orientation and gender identity were not explicitly mentioned grounds.
Until Aug 4, 2005
No protections
Before this date there was no protection of the LGBT population from discrimination in employment in the North Macedonian legislature.
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LGBT housing discrimination in Dolneni

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LGBT housing discrimination in Dolneni is sexual orientation and gender identity.

Current status
Since Oct 30, 2020
Sexual orientation and gender identity
The 2020 Law on Prevention and Protection against Discrimination prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in Housing, among other areas.
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May 28, 2020–Oct 29, 2020
No protections
On 14 May 2020, Constitutional Court of North Macedonia repealed the Law on Prevention and Protection from Discrimination on procedural grounds, meaning that LGBT people were no longer protected in Housing.
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May 22, 2019–May 27, 2020
Sexual orientation and gender identity
The 2019 Law on Prevention and Protection against Discrimination prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in Housing, among other areas.
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Jan 1, 2011–May 21, 2019
Ambiguous
The Law on Prohibition of Discrimination from 2010 prohibited discrimination in Housing, but sexual orientation and gender identity were not explicitly mentioned as grounds.
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Until Dec 31, 2010
No protections
Before this date there was no protection against discrimination in Housing in North Macedonian legislation.
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Same-sex adoption in Dolneni

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Same-sex adoption in Dolneni is single only.

Current status
Single only
No same sex adoption laws.
Also, no restrictions for LGBT singles.
Adoptive parents who live in a married or cohabiting union have priority over single people when adopting a child.
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Intersex infant surgery in Dolneni

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Intersex infant surgery in Dolneni is not banned.

Current status
Not banned
There is no official ban on unnecessary sex reassignment operations in infants in North Macedonia.
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Serving openly in military in Dolneni

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Serving openly in military in Dolneni is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.

Current status
Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
While Gays and lesbians are permitted, Transgender people are not
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Blood donations by MSMs in Dolneni

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Blood donations by MSMs in Dolneni is legal.

Current status
Since Oct 30, 2009
Legal
There is no criteria against MSM donating blood in North Macedonia.
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Conversion therapy in Dolneni

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Conversion therapy in Dolneni is not banned.

Current status
Not banned
There is no ban, but there is also no information about the official practice of Conversion Therapy by centers, state or religious institutions.

Equal age of consent in Dolneni

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Equal age of consent in Dolneni is equal.

Current status
Since Nov 1, 1996
Equal
Age of consent in North Macedonia is set to 14 years and is equal for everyone.
Until Oct 31, 1996
N/A
Consensual homosexual intercourse between men was illegal before 1996.
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