Parallel report to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2014

The report contains recommendations to the Danish Government and the Greenlandic Government on the strengthening of the national human rights protection within the scope of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

The parallel report is built on the recommendations for the Committee’s list of issues for Denmark, which DIHR compiled prior to the publication of the final list of issues from the Committee. Nevertheless, it does not pretend to give answers to the questions in the final list of issues by explaining what the Danish Government already has done to implement the CRPD in Denmark. On the contrary, it focuses on selected issues and on what needs to be done to strengthen the national human rights protection within the scope of the CRPD.

The report is divided into two main sections. The first section concerns the implementation of the CRPD in Denmark. The second section focuses on the implementation of the CRPD in Greenland. Each section is structured according to the final list of issues, though it only contains selected issues from the list. Furthermore, the parallel report contains issues, which are not recorded on the list of issues but according to DIHR still needs to be addressed.