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Ecri Report on Denmark CRI(2017)20 ECRI REPORT ON DENMARK (fifth monitoring cycle) Adopted on 23 March 2017 Published on 16 May 2017 ECRI Secretariat Directorate General II - Democracy Council of Europe F-67075 STRASBOURG Cedex Tel.: + 33 (0) 3 90 21 46 62 E-mail: [email protected] www.coe.int/ecri ECRI REPORT ON DENMARK (fifth monitoring cycle) Adopted on 23 March 2017 Published on 16 May 2017 TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD ................................................................................................................ 7 SUMMARY ................................................................................................................... 9 FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS .................................................................... 11 I. COMMON TOPICS................................................................................... 11 1. LEGISLATION AGAINST RACISM AND RACIAL DISCRIMINATION .......................... 11 - PROTOCOL NO. 12 TO THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS ....... 11 - CRIMINAL LAW PROVISIONS ......................................................................... 11 - CIVIL AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW PROVISIONS ................................................ 12 - INDEPENDENT AUTHORITIES ENTRUSTED WITH THE FIGHT AGAINST RACISM AND RACIAL DISCRIMINATION (GPR NOS. 2 AND 7) ....................................... 13 2. HATE SPEECH ............................................................................................ 14 - DATA ......................................................................................................... 14 - HATE SPEECH IN PUBLIC AND POLITICAL DISCOURSE ..................................... 15 - HOMO- AND /TRANSPHOBIC HATE SPEECH .................................................... 16 - HATE SPEECH IN THE MEDIA AND ON THE INTERNET ...................................... 16 - MEASURES TAKEN BY THE AUTHORITIES ....................................................... 16 3. RACIST AND HOMO/TRANSPHOBIC VIOLENCE ................................................ 18 - DATA ......................................................................................................... 18 - ANTISEMITIC AND ISLAMOPHOBIC VIOLENCE ................................................. 18 - HOMO- / TRANSPHOBIC VIOLENCE ................................................................ 19 - MEASURES TAKEN BY THE AUTHORITIES ....................................................... 19 4. INTEGRATION POLICIES ............................................................................... 20 - ACCESS TO EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL PROTECTION ..................................... 21 - FAMILY REUNIFICATIONS ............................................................................. 23 - EDUCATION ................................................................................................ 24 - THE CURRENT MIGRATION CRISIS ................................................................ 25 - MUSLIMS ................................................................................................... 26 - THE BLACK COMMUNITY .............................................................................. 26 - GREENLANDERS (INUIT) .............................................................................. 26 - ROMA ........................................................................................................ 27 II. TOPICS SPECIFIC TO DENMARK .......................................................... 28 1. INTERIM FOLLOW-UP RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE FOURTH CYCLE.................. 28 2. POLICIES TO COMBAT DISCRIMINATION AND INTOLERANCE AGAINST LGBT PERSONS ................................................................................................... 28 - DATA ......................................................................................................... 28 - LEGISLATION .............................................................................................. 28 - GENDER REASSIGNMENT ............................................................................ 29 INTERIM FOLLOW-UP RECOMMENDATIONS ......................................................... 31 LIST OF RECOMMENDATIONS ................................................................................ 33 BIBLIOGRAPHY ........................................................................................................ 37 5 FOREWORD The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), established by the Council of Europe, is an independent human rights monitoring body specialised in questions relating to racism and intolerance. It is composed of independent and impartial members appointed on the basis of their moral authority and recognised expertise in dealing with racism, xenophobia, antisemitism and intolerance. In the framework of its statutory activities, ECRI conducts country monitoring work, which analyses the situation in each of the member States regarding racism and intolerance and draws up suggestions and proposals for dealing with the problems identified. ECRI’s country monitoring deals with all member States of the Council of Europe on an equal footing. The work takes place in 5-year cycles, covering 9-10 countries per year. The reports of the first round were completed at the end of 1998, those of the second round at the end of 2002, those of the third round at the end of 2007, and those of the fourth round in the beginning of 2014. Work on the fifth round reports started in November 2012. The working methods for the preparation of the reports involve documentary analyses, a visit to the country concerned, and then a confidential dialogue with the national authorities. ECRI’s reports are not the result of inquiries or testimonial evidence. They are analyses based on a great deal of information gathered from a wide variety of sources. Documentary studies are based on a large number of national and international written sources. The in situ visit provides the opportunity to meet with the parties directly concerned (both governmental and non-governmental) with a view to gathering detailed information. The process of confidential dialogue with the national authorities allows the latter to provide, if they consider it necessary, comments on the draft report, with a view to correcting any possible factual errors which the report might contain. At the end of the dialogue, the national authorities may request, if they so wish, that their viewpoints be appended to the final ECRI report. The fifth round country-by-country reports focus on four topics common to all member States: (1) Legislative issues, (2) Hate speech, (3) Violence, (4) Integration policies and a number of topics specific to each one of them. The fourth-cycle interim recommendations not implemented or partially implemented during the fourth monitoring cycle will be followed up in this connection. In the framework of the fifth cycle, priority implementation is requested again for two specific recommendations chosen from those made in the report. A process of interim follow-up for these two recommendations will be conducted by ECRI no later than two years following the publication of this report. The following report was drawn up by ECRI under its own responsibility. It covers the situation up to 8 December 2016; developments since that date are neither covered in the following analysis nor taken into account in the conclusions and proposals therein. 7 SUMMARY Since the adoption of ECRI’s fourth report on Denmark on 23 March 2012, progress has been made in a number of fields. The Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR), the designated specialised body for the promotion of equal treatment and effective protection against discrimination, has been empowered to bring cases of general interest to the public before the Board of Equal Treatment. Following-up on one of ECRI’s priority recommendations from its fourth report, the authorities provided support to civil society actors working on issues relating to groups of concern to ECRI and cooperated with the latter in the field of integration, including for newly-arrived refugees and beneficiaries of subsidiary protection during the migration crisis of 2014 and 2015. Concerning another priority recommendation made by ECRI in its last report, the authorities took various positive initiatives to increase diversity in policing by recruiting more officers from ethnic minority backgrounds. Having seen some initial results, the authorities also endeavoured to put in place mechanisms to measure, evaluate and sustain progress in this area, which plays an important role in the field of integration. Recognising the problem of social marginalisation of members of the Greenlandic Inuit community residing in Denmark, the government, in 2013, launched a four-year strategy for them. The strategy has since been extended to 2020. The government provides financial support to the five largest municipalities in order to improve the situation of the most vulnerable members of the Greenlandic community. ECRI welcomes these positive developments in Denmark. However, despite the progress achieved, some issues give rise to concern. The country’s criminal, civil and administrative law provisions are still not entirely in line with ECRI’s General Policy Recommendation No. 7 on national legislation to combat racism and racial discrimination. Racist hate speech, in particular against Muslims, continues to be a problem. Although the authorities have begun to overhaul the data collection mechanism for hate crime incidents in general, it needs
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