- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ Imprisonment as punishment
- 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
- N/A
Public Opinion
Recent public opinion surveys in Mali have pointed to a persistence of extremely homophobic attitudes, causing deep concern.
History
Homosexual activity in Mali is illegal (imprisonment as punishment).
Same-sex marriage in Mali is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Mali is imprisonment as punishment.
Researchers have found that searches for LGBT related subjects on the Malian internet are curated to provide anti-LGBT results. The country has an authoritarian government and appears to control the flow of information online.
Right to change legal gender in Mali is illegal.
Gender-affirming care in Mali is restricted.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Mali is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Mali is illegal in some contexts.
-Decree of 09/10/2020 on Gender assessments in Energy Projects protects sexual orientation under "Vulnerable groups" definition.
-Civil Servant Welcome and Integration Handbook issued in 2013 by the Office of the Commission for Institutional Development, states that all employees with the same status have the same rights with regard to the service and no distinction may be made based on the basis of sexual orientation."
-Manual for Providers for Care of victims of sexual and gender-based violence, issued in 2014 by the Ministry of Health, states that victims have the right to access services without discrimination based on sexual orientation. Also, one of the guiding Principles is to "Ensure non-discrimination" regardless of gender or sexual orientation.
-The Reproductive Health Procedures, issued in 2019 by the Ministry of Health, states that no one shall be discriminated against in their sexual and reproductive lives, or in access to health care and/or services, on the grounds of sex or sexual orientation.
-The Prisoner's Guide issued in 2021 by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights states that a person must not be subject to any discrimination in detention or differential treatment based on prejudice, including, but not limited to sexual orientation.
Some laws protect "sexual life" as senstitive personal data:
-Law No. 2013-015 on the Protection of Personal Data in the Republic of Mali.
-Law No. 2015-015 Regulating Credit Information Bureaus.
People are often subject to discrimination and beatings. In 2018, a transgender woman was viciously beaten with an iron bar and a whip, and her attackers yelled things like “Damnation!” and “Look at this son of the damned!”
LGBT employment discrimination in Mali is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Mali is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Mali is illegal.
Intersex infant surgery in Mali is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Mali is illegal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Mali is ambiguous.
There are no official sources from the Ministry of Health regarding the questionnaire for donating blood.
Conversion therapy in Mali is not banned.