Selected list of issues on the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women 2014

Each issue is followed by recommendations for the Committee’s list of issues for Denmark and Greenland.

The selection of issues included in this report is based on recommendations to the governments of Denmark and Greenland from various international bodies such as UN treaty bodies, UN Special procedures and The Universal Periodic Review of Denmark. Furthermore the selection of issues is based on relevant human rights debates in Denmark, previous recommendations given by the Danish Institute for Human Rights or civil society through legal briefs, thematic reports etc.

This report consists of three main sections. The first section (Chapter 2 on general obligation) is focused on structural challenges in Denmark concerning human rights protection. The second section (Chapter 3 on specific rights) concerns material issues which are sorted according to the relevant articles in the UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). The third section (Chapter 4 on Greenland) concerns human rights issues in Greenland and has been compiled in consultation with the Human Rights Council of Greenland.