In this new note, the Institute for Human Rights reviews the human rights obligations for supervision of intelligence services and compares the Danish supervision with similar supervision in other European countries.
The Danish Institute for Human Rights publishes its annual report to the Danish Parliament on the development of human rights in Denmark. The report provides an overview of progress and setbacks for human rights in the past year.
ANALYSIS: The working environment rules should be based on the Equal Treatment Act's definition of sexual harassment. It will ensure a clear understanding of what constitutes sexual harassment, and ensure effective enforcement of the prohibition on sexual harassment.
Children's rights should be strengthened in the law for juvenile crime. This is the assessment of the Department of Human Rights on the basis of a study of the human rights consequences it has for vulnerable children and young people to meet the Board if the Juvenile Prevention.
Parallel report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on the 22nd to 24th periodic reports by the Government of Denmark on the implementation of the international convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination.
The European Court of Human Rights has a set of demands as to when rejected asylum seekers or other foreigners without legal residence can be detained.
This context analysis addresses the political, the economic, the legal, and the human rights situation and it briefly reviews the Tigray conflict with its grave political consequences.
Illegal content on social media must be removed, but it must be done without undermining citizens' fundamental right to free speech and the rule of law.
The Danish Institute for Human Rights calls on the Danish Parliament and the Danish Prison and Probation Service to limit the use of penal cells as much as possible. The Institute also has a number of recommendations to improve the conditions for prisoners who are punished with solitary confinement.
