A new law was passed recognizing sex without consent as rape. Abuse of minorities increased during the national COVID-19 lockdown. A discriminatory law on social housing remained in place. The authorities failed to protect the rights of children born with variations in sex characteristics.

Amnesty International welcomes Denmark’s engagement with the UPR and its acceptance of 202 out of 288 recommendations. We wish to highlight the need to strictly monitor Denmark’s implementation of accepted recommendations.

This compilation of recommendations are made to seven of the states under review in the 38th session of the UN Universal Periodic Review (Belgium, Denmark, Mozambique, Paraguay, Sierra Leone, Singapore and Somalia) and address key human rights concerns in each country.

This submission was prepared for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Denmark in May 2021. In it, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation of recommendations made to Denmark in its previous UPR, including in relation to the international human rights framework, racial discrimination,...

Health and essential workers have played an extraordinary role in the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Across countries, they have put their health and wellbeing at risk, often in very difficult circumstances and with very little support, to ensure that people are able to access the...

Amnesty International presents its responses to the questionnaire on criminalization and prosecution of rape in Denmark. This submission has been prepared in response to the call for contributions issued by the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and...

Amnesty International presents its submissions on Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, Finland, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, as contributions to her thematic report on rape as a grave and...

Amnesty International is calling the Greek authorities to urgently disclose the information used for threatening the CEO of the Danish NGO Team Humanity, Salam Aldeen, an Iraqi national and resident of Denmark, with deportation from Greece, where he has been in custody for over a week.

Amnesty International provides the below information to UN CEDAW ahead of the adoption of the list of issues for the tenth periodic report of Denmark at its 76th Pre-Session. Amnesty International has concerns about violations of the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in...

Amnesty International submits this briefing in advance of the consideration of the sixth periodic report of Denmark by the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (the Committee) in September 2019. In particular, this submission provides information on the failure to uphold...

Women in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) encounter multiple barriers in accessing justice for rape and sexual violence. High levels of rape and widespread impunity stand in stark contrast to the high scores the region has achieved in gender equality in many areas of life....

As human rights and intersex rights organisations, we are concerned about the way that the Danish Health Authority organised the conference titled “Konference om variationer i kønskarakteristika / Conference about differences in sex characteristics”, held on 30 January 2019 in Copenhagen. Although...

Women in Denmark encounter many barriers in accessing justice for rape. The vast majority of rapes are never reported and out of those that are, very few end up with a conviction. This report, which includes interviews with survivors, activists and officials, highlights that while there is a...