- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Not legal
- Censorship
- ✖ Imprisonment as punishment
- Changing Gender
- N/A
- Non-binary gender recognition
- Unknown
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- Ambiguous
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- N/A
Public Opinion
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Suggest Public Opinion DataHistory
Homosexual activity in Yemen is illegal (imprisonment as punishment).
Since 2014
Women are punished up to three years of imprisonment; where the offense has been committed under duress, the punishment is up to seven years detention.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Yemen is imprisonment as punishment.
Right to change legal gender in Yemen is n/a.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Yemen is unknown.
LGBT discrimination in Yemen is no protections.
Since Sep 29, 1994
LGBT employment discrimination in Yemen is no protections.
Since Sep 22, 1994
LGBT housing discrimination in Yemen is no protections.
Since Sep 22, 1994
Same-sex adoption in Yemen is illegal.
Serving openly in military in Yemen is illegal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Yemen is ambiguous.
Conversion therapy in Yemen is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Yemen is n/a.
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