Legal recognition of non-biological parents exists in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Netherlands and Norway. Violent attacks or harassment of sexual minorities and aids activists have been reported in 19 countries since 1994. Severe police harassment has been reported in 18 countries. Sexual minority people from 37 different countries have been granted asylum in 18 countries, but applications are usually refused. Gender reassignment is illegal in Portugal, Iran, Ghana, Slovenia, Albania, Macedonia.
China prosecutes gays and lesbians under hooliganism laws.
Australia has specific protection from discrimination for transgendered people. Gays and lesbians are banned from the armed forces in Japan, Belarus, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Turkey, Argentina, Brazil, Peru and Venezuela. Fiji did have a clause prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation written into its constitution like Ecuador and South Africa but this was removed. 2 Switzerland has a lifestyle clause. Judith Mackay, The Penguin Atlas of Human Sexual Behaviour , Penguin, 2000.