There have been no legislative changes in Monaco since 2022 that relate to education and SOGIGESC issues.
In 2021, Monaco adopted a law against bullying in schools. School bullying is defined in the new Article 236-1-1 of the Criminal Code as the act of subjecting a pupil, within his or her direct or indirect school environment, knowingly, and by any means whatsoever, including by a process of electronic communication, to repeated actions or omissions with the purpose or effect of degrading his or her learning conditions or school life, resulting in a violation of his or her dignity or damage to his or her physical or mental health. In addition, Article 236-1-1 of the Criminal Code provides for aggravated penalties when the acts are committed “against a person or group of persons on the grounds of their physical appearance, sex, disability, origin, sexual orientation, actual or assumed belonging or not to a particular ethnic group, nation, race or religion”.
There are no laws in place that would protect LGBTQI learners from discrimination.
The 2021 law against bullying in schools provides for bullying prevention plans for each school, awareness-raising activities, appointing an anti-bullying delegate and school focal points and introducing penalties or strengthening existing penalties for personal injury (mainly to deal with acts that could be described as hazing and the offence of inciting another to commit suicide). The law also addresses cyberbullying, with increased penalties, “mobbing” and “cyber-mob attacks”.
Between 2015 - 2019, the government hosted the “No to Bullying” day annually across schools, but the event did not explicitly include SOGIGESC grounds or the needs of LGBTQI learners.
SOGIGESC issues are not part of the mandatory curricula.
Monaco continues to have no mandatory sex education or human rights curricula that are inclusive of SOGIGESC.
The 2021 law against bullying in schools provides for anti-bullying training for all staff involved in teaching.
There is no specific information available about the school environment in Monaco.
Based on the above information, it would appear that the government does not provide funding nor does it actively work in partnership with NGOs to promote LGBTQI inclusive education.
There are no legal gender recognition procedures in place in Monaco.
No information is available about policies or practices allowing trans students to use their correct name and gender in schools.
The government does not collect data on anti-LGBTQI bullying.
Neither the government or schools provide targeted support for LGBTQI learners or their families.
No relevant guidelines are in place for teachers or LGBTQI learners.
Monaco is a States Party to seven of the nine core UN treaties, including the ICESCR and the CRC, which enshrine the right to education. Monaco is not a member of the European Governmental LGBTI Focal Points Network (as of October 2021) and has not signed the 2016 UNESCO Call for Action. During its third UPR review in 2018, Monaco received three recommendations to tackle discrimination and violence on the basis of SOGI.
Here is the country's score for each ground of discrimination on which we based our observations for 8 of the 10 indicators presented above.
To enable a meaningful comparison of country progress over time, we have retroactively aligned the scoring systems used in the 2018 and 2022 Editions of IGLYO’s LGBTQI Inclusive Education Index with the updated 2025 scoring criteria. While each edition of the research has built on the previous one, reflecting evolving standards and priorities in inclusive education, minor changes to indicators and scoring weights were introduced in 2022 and 2025 to improve clarity, consistency, and comprehensiveness.
By recalculating the earlier scores according to the 2025 framework, we have tried to ensure comparability across all three editions and provide a more accurate picture of progress, stagnation, or regression in each country’s approach to LGBTQI-inclusive education. For this reason, you might find some scores in the PDF Report & Index 2018 and 2022 differing from those on the Education website for these two years.