Equal Consent Laws Timeline.

Replaced the colonial code, ending article 292, and set one age of 18 with gender-neutral offences, expressly covering acts between people of the same sex.

Federal law applying in every state: declared the presumption of vulnerability of a person under 14 absolute, whatever the consent or sexual history of the victim, in the same terms for every couple.

Punishes a homosexual act with two years' imprisonment and allows death for a habitual offender, with no age or consent element.

The October 2026 reform made any non-cópula sexual act with a person under 18 abuso sexual equiparado even with consent, setting a higher effective age for sex between women than for intercourse.

Federal law applying in every state: declared the presumption of vulnerability of a person under 14 absolute, whatever the consent or sexual history of the victim, in the same terms for every couple.

Raised the age of consent from 16 to 18 for offenders at least six years older and extended the household and authority offences to anyone under 18, in gender-neutral terms, from 1 July 2026.

Federal law applying in every state: declared the presumption of vulnerability of a person under 14 absolute, whatever the consent or sexual history of the victim, in the same terms for every couple.

Federal law applying in every state: declared the presumption of vulnerability of a person under 14 absolute, whatever the consent or sexual history of the victim, in the same terms for every couple.

Federal law applying in every state: declared the presumption of vulnerability of a person under 14 absolute, whatever the consent or sexual history of the victim, in the same terms for every couple.

Deleted paragraphs (a) and (c) of section 164 from the Penal Code, bringing the text into line with the court rulings; only bestiality remains.

The new Penal Code replaced the old Code and kept the age of 16 and the close-in-age rules for 14 and 15 year olds in gender-neutral terms.

Abuso sexual of a child or adolescent even with consent carries 6 to 13 years, so non-penile sex with a 16 or 17 year old is punished far more heavily than intercourse.

Federal law applying in every state: declared the presumption of vulnerability of a person under 14 absolute, whatever the consent or sexual history of the victim, in the same terms for every couple.

The new Penal Code replaced the 1884 Code with gender-neutral sexual offences aggravated where the victim is a child or adolescent, and kept article 396 of Ley 136-03 in force by repealing only other articles of that…

Federal law applying in every state: declared the presumption of vulnerability of a person under 14 absolute, whatever the consent or sexual history of the victim, in the same terms for every couple.

Federal law applying in every state: declared the presumption of vulnerability of a person under 14 absolute, whatever the consent or sexual history of the victim, in the same terms for every couple.

The new Penal Code replaced the old Code and kept the age of 16 and the close-in-age rules for 14 and 15 year olds in gender-neutral terms.

Federal law applying in every state: declared the presumption of vulnerability of a person under 14 absolute, whatever the consent or sexual history of the victim, in the same terms for every couple.

Replaced the colonial code, ending article 292, and set one age of 18 with gender-neutral offences, expressly covering acts between people of the same sex.

Re-enacted article 473 from 2 January 2026, removing the minimum penalty in paragraph (4) but still leaving intercourse with a child (up to 12 years) out of the 15-year maximum that applies to anal, oral, digital and…

Federal law applying in every state: declared the presumption of vulnerability of a person under 14 absolute, whatever the consent or sexual history of the victim, in the same terms for every couple.

Federal law applying in every state: declared the presumption of vulnerability of a person under 14 absolute, whatever the consent or sexual history of the victim, in the same terms for every couple.

Federal law applying in every state: declared the presumption of vulnerability of a person under 14 absolute, whatever the consent or sexual history of the victim, in the same terms for every couple.

The 2026 decree lowered to 15 the age for cópula in art 181 Bis and set estupro at 15 to 17, but left non-cópula sexual acts punishable below 18, creating a higher effective age for sex between women.

Federal law applying in every state: declared the presumption of vulnerability of a person under 14 absolute, whatever the consent or sexual history of the victim, in the same terms for every couple.

Set a minimum term of five years for sexual battery where the victim is under 16, from 1 July 2026, without a matching change to statutory rape.

The 2026 reform makes any non-cópula sexual act with a person aged 14 to 17 abuso sexual, setting a higher effective age for sex between women than for intercourse.

The latest amendment to the sexual assault definitions keeps the gender-neutral definition of sexual penetration covering oral and anal acts.

Criminalised sexual relations between persons of the same sex at any age, replacing the under-21 offence of the 1961 code.

The June 2026 reform rewrote abuso sexual, keeping consent irrelevant for a person aged 15 or younger.

Reclassified the crime against nature as a Class B4 felony of up to ten years, keeping it in force with no age element, from 1 January 2026.

Federal law applying in every state: declared the presumption of vulnerability of a person under 14 absolute, whatever the consent or sexual history of the victim, in the same terms for every couple.

Federal law applying in every state: declared the presumption of vulnerability of a person under 14 absolute, whatever the consent or sexual history of the victim, in the same terms for every couple.

Federal law applying in every state: declared the presumption of vulnerability of a person under 14 absolute, whatever the consent or sexual history of the victim, in the same terms for every couple.

Federal law applying in every state: declared the presumption of vulnerability of a person under 14 absolute, whatever the consent or sexual history of the victim, in the same terms for every couple.

Federal law applying in every state: declared the presumption of vulnerability of a person under 14 absolute, whatever the consent or sexual history of the victim, in the same terms for every couple.

The current consolidated Criminal Code keeps a gender-neutral age of 15 in article 200 and a consent-based rape offence in article 197.

Federal law applying in every state: declared the presumption of vulnerability of a person under 14 absolute, whatever the consent or sexual history of the victim, in the same terms for every couple.

Federal law applying in every state: declared the presumption of vulnerability of a person under 14 absolute, whatever the consent or sexual history of the victim, in the same terms for every couple.

Federal law applying in every state: declared the presumption of vulnerability of a person under 14 absolute, whatever the consent or sexual history of the victim, in the same terms for every couple.

Federal law applying in every state: declared the presumption of vulnerability of a person under 14 absolute, whatever the consent or sexual history of the victim, in the same terms for every couple.

Federal law applying in every state: declared the presumption of vulnerability of a person under 14 absolute, whatever the consent or sexual history of the victim, in the same terms for every couple.

Federal law applying in every state: declared the presumption of vulnerability of a person under 14 absolute, whatever the consent or sexual history of the victim, in the same terms for every couple.

Federal law applying in every state: declared the presumption of vulnerability of a person under 14 absolute, whatever the consent or sexual history of the victim, in the same terms for every couple.

Raised the penalty for any sexual act between people of the same sex to five to ten years.

Federal law applying in every state: declared the presumption of vulnerability of a person under 14 absolute, whatever the consent or sexual history of the victim, in the same terms for every couple.

The May 2026 decree set 18 as the age for cópula and all other sexual acts with minors, whatever their consent, and repealed estupro, for everyone.

The May 2026 decree made any non-cópula sexual act with a person under 18 an offence even with consent (6 to 13 years), giving sex between women a higher effective age than intercourse, which remains lawful from 12…

Art 268, in force before 2025 and amended in February 2026, punishes any non-cópula sexual act with a person under 18 even with consent, setting a higher effective age for sex between women than for intercourse.

The Supreme Court struck down wording that treated procuring or inducing a minor into 'homosexualismo' as corruption of minors; Congress then reformed arts 192 and 193 (P.O. Extraordinario No. 25, 26 June 2026).

Federal law applying in every state: declared the presumption of vulnerability of a person under 14 absolute, whatever the consent or sexual history of the victim, in the same terms for every couple.

The new Penal Code replaced the old Code and kept the age of 16 and the close-in-age rules for 14 and 15 year olds in gender-neutral terms.

The latest reform of violación equiparada keeps 15 as the age for cópula or object penetration, for everyone.

The January 2026 reform made any non-cópula sexual act with a minor abuso sexual, with 8 to 12 years for victims aged 12 to 17, setting a higher effective age for sex between women than for intercourse.

From 1 December 2025 article 409 covers consensual sexual contact between two men or two women aged 18 or over, on complaint of a husband or guardian (terms as recorded in the saved Criminalisation result).

Federal law: raised the penalties for sexual offences against vulnerable persons, without changing the gender-neutral wording or the age of 14.

From 1 December 2025 article 409 covers consensual sexual contact between two men or two women aged 18 or over, on complaint of a husband or guardian (terms as recorded in the saved Criminalisation result).

Federal law: raised the penalties for sexual offences against vulnerable persons, without changing the gender-neutral wording or the age of 14.

Federal law: raised the penalties for sexual offences against vulnerable persons, without changing the gender-neutral wording or the age of 14.

Federal law: raised the penalties for sexual offences against vulnerable persons, without changing the gender-neutral wording or the age of 14.

The High Court upheld the gender-neutral offence of procuring a minor (a person under 18) for unlawful sexual intercourse in section 148 of the Criminal Code, alongside sections 143 and 144 on sexual intercourse with a…

The current defences in s 13-1407, including the gender-neutral 24-month close-in-age defence and the spousal defence, were last amended in 2025.

Federal law: raised the penalties for sexual offences against vulnerable persons, without changing the gender-neutral wording or the age of 14.

In 2025 the Congress raised from 12 to 15 the age below which any sexual relation is violación equiparada and set estupro at 15 to 17, for everyone.

From 25 March 2025 rape of a child under 16 can be committed by any person and covers penetration with any body part or object and oral or anal acts with boys, so sex between women with a girl under 16 is rape; the…

Held that the three-year maximum age gap in article 417/6, section 2, breaches the equality provisions of the Constitution because of its disproportionate effects; the ruling applies to every couple.

Created the first offence of homosexual acts in Burkina Faso, covering men and women at any age.

Federal law: raised the penalties for sexual offences against vulnerable persons, without changing the gender-neutral wording or the age of 14.

The December 2025 reform treats non-cópula sexual acts with a person under 18 as aggravated abuso sexual even with consent, setting a higher effective age for sex between women than for intercourse.

A consent-based reform of the sexual offences took effect on 1 January 2025; it kept gender-neutral wording and the same penalties for intercourse and for comparable sexual acts, and left the age of 15 in § 187…

The current consolidated Penal Code keeps the age of 15 in § 222 and the equal application of all offences to other sexual relations in § 225.

From 1 December 2025 article 409 covers consensual sexual contact between two men or two women aged 18 or over, on complaint of a husband or guardian (terms as recorded in the saved Criminalisation result).

Federal law: raised the penalties for sexual offences against vulnerable persons, without changing the gender-neutral wording or the age of 14.

Federal law: raised the penalties for sexual offences against vulnerable persons, without changing the gender-neutral wording or the age of 14.

Raised the age of consent from 14 to 15 in a new gender-neutral article 210c, with a three-year close-in-age exemption and a reduced penalty for an avoidable mistake about age, and redefined rape by absence of consent.

Held that the three-year maximum age gap in article 417/6, section 2, breaches the equality provisions of the Constitution because of its disproportionate effects; the ruling applies to every couple.

From 1 December 2025 article 409 covers consensual sexual contact between two men or two women aged 18 or over, on complaint of a husband or guardian (terms as recorded in the saved Criminalisation result).

The Act replaced and repealed the colonial-era Criminal Code and punishes sexual acts against the order of nature, and gross indecency, between men and between women at any age.

Federal law: raised the penalties for sexual offences against vulnerable persons, without changing the gender-neutral wording or the age of 14.

A 2025 amendment extended article 339(3) to causing a child under 15 to watch sexual acts online, in gender-neutral terms.

Added aggravated third degree criminal sexual conduct and a close-in-age mitigation for consensual acts with 14 and 15 year olds by someone no more than four years older, for all couples alike.

The March 2025 reform raised the penalty for violación equiparada of a person under 15 and recast art 181 as a heavier penalty where the sexual act of art 180 is done to a child or adolescent, for victims of any sex.

The compiled text in force punishes non-cópula sexual acts with any minor even with consent, where the 2017 compilation set this at under 15, giving sex between women a higher effective age than intercourse.

Repealed article 182, under which an abductor who lawfully married the abducted female with her guardian's consent was not punished.

Federal law: raised the penalties for sexual offences against vulnerable persons, without changing the gender-neutral wording or the age of 14.

Federal law: raised the penalties for sexual offences against vulnerable persons, without changing the gender-neutral wording or the age of 14.

Federal law: raised the penalties for sexual offences against vulnerable persons, without changing the gender-neutral wording or the age of 14.

Federal law: raised the penalties for sexual offences against vulnerable persons, without changing the gender-neutral wording or the age of 14.

Reenacted the sexual abuse of a minor offences with an age scale tied to the offender's age, applying to all couples alike, and limited the reasonable-belief defence to victims aged 16 or over.

The 2025 reform defined the penetration acts, by any body part, object or the sexual organ, that art 247 punishes with a person under 18, for everyone.

Rewrote rape and related offences against minors in terms of a person of either sex, keeping 14 as the age below which consent is irrelevant; the law took effect on promulgation.

Federal law: raised the penalties for sexual offences against vulnerable persons, without changing the gender-neutral wording or the age of 14.

Federal law: raised the penalties for sexual offences against vulnerable persons, without changing the gender-neutral wording or the age of 14.

Federal law: raised the penalties for sexual offences against vulnerable persons, without changing the gender-neutral wording or the age of 14.

Federal law: raised the penalties for sexual offences against vulnerable persons, without changing the gender-neutral wording or the age of 14.

Federal law: raised the penalties for sexual offences against vulnerable persons, without changing the gender-neutral wording or the age of 14.

From 1 December 2025 article 409 covers consensual sexual contact between two men or two women aged 18 or over, on complaint of a husband or guardian (terms as recorded in the saved Criminalisation result).

Federal law: raised the penalties for sexual offences against vulnerable persons, without changing the gender-neutral wording or the age of 14.

Federal law: raised the penalties for sexual offences against vulnerable persons, without changing the gender-neutral wording or the age of 14.

Federal law: raised the penalties for sexual offences against vulnerable persons, without changing the gender-neutral wording or the age of 14.