The discrimination helpline
What is the Discrimination Helpline?
Call +45 3269 8666
Monday-Thursday 12:00-15:00 PM
If you have experienced discrimination because of your handicap, gender, sexuality, gender expression, gender characteristics, gender identity, age, religion, race or ethnic origin, you can get advice and counsel from the Danish Institute for Human Rights.
You can call the Discrimination Helpline at +45 3269 8666 Mondays to Thursdays at 12:00-15:00.
Or you can send an email to diskriminationslinjen@humanrights.dk describing your situation.
At the Discrimination Helpline you will be met by our talented legal consultants, who are ready to help you with your situation.
The Discrimination Helpline provides legal advice and counsel.
We can help you write a complaint or get in touch with e.g. your municipality, and we can offer you legal counsel as you bring your case to the Board of Equal Treatment and help you understand your case and the ruling.
Discrimination is negative differential treatment based on e.g. gender, age, sexuality, ethnicity, handicap, religion etc. It is when you are treated worse than other people or receive less protection and there are no legal grounds for this.
Sometimes, though, there are legal grounds for treating people differently. It can be to ensure that everyone is treated equally. For example, children with handicaps may require special treatment to ensure they have the same opportunities as other children.
When you contact us we will process your personal information. This means that when the Danish Institute for Human Rights receives your call or email, we will save your personal data to be able to answer you and to maintain an overview of all the calls and emails we receive. We will save your name and contact information, a description of your case and our answer to you.
We will save your personal information for five years after completing your case. Both during and after processing you case, your personal information and the case will be saved in our system. Only a specific group of employees will have access to your case.
All staff at the Danish Institute for Human Rights have a duty of confidentiality, and your personal information will not be passed on to external parties without your consent.
You can at any time get insight into your personal information, have it corrected or deleted, and you can always ask us to stop processing your case. Call us at +45 32 69 86 66.