- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Illegal (death penalty as punishment)
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Not legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✔ Legal, surgery not required
- Non-binary gender recognition
- Unknown
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- Ambiguous
- Age of Consent
- ✖ Unequal
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Perceived Acceptance of Gay People
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History
Homosexual activity in Mauritania is illegal (death penalty as punishment).
Since Jul 9, 1983
Same-sex marriage in Mauritania is not legal.
Since Jul 9, 1983
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Mauritania is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Mauritania is legal, surgery not required.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Mauritania is unknown.
LGBT discrimination in Mauritania is no protections.
Since Jul 12, 1991
LGBT employment discrimination in Mauritania is no protections.
Since Jul 12, 1991
LGBT housing discrimination in Mauritania is no protections.
Since Jul 12, 1991
Same-sex adoption in Mauritania is illegal.
Since Jul 9, 1983
Homosexuals serving openly in military in Mauritania is illegal.
Since Jul 8, 1983
Blood donations by MSMs in Mauritania is legal.
Conversion therapy in Mauritania is ambiguous.
Equal age of consent in Mauritania is unequal.
Since Jul 9, 1983
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