A/HRC/54/31/Add.1 Annex Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, José Francisco Calí Tzay, on his visit to Denmark and Greenland I. Introduction 1. In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, José Francisco Calí Tzay, reviews the situation of the Inuit Indigenous Peoples in Denmark and Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat), drawing on the information that he received in the context of his visit from 1 to 10 February 2023. He thanks the Governments of Denmark and Greenland for having invited him and for their excellent cooperation. 2. During the visit to Denmark, the Special Rapporteur met with, among others: the State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, representatives of the Prime Minister’s Office, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Social Affairs, Housing and Senior Citizens, the Ministry of the Interior and Health, the Ministry of Children and Education, the Ministry of Gender Equality, the Ministry of Higher Education and Science, the Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities, the Ministry of the Environment and the Ministry of Industry, Business and Financial Affairs, the head of the Representation of Greenland in Copenhagen and members of Parliament (Folketing). In Greenland, he met with representatives of government (Naalakkersuisut) ministries related to gender equality, social affairs, children, youth and family, health, education and culture, housing, justice, fisheries and hunting, mineral resources, energy, climate and the environment, foreign affairs, business and trade, infrastructure and housing; Members of Parliament (Inatsisartut) and the Constitutional Commission; the High Commissioner of Greenland; and representatives of the Prison and Probation Service, the Greenland Police, municipal authorities, the High Court and the District Courts. 3. The Special Rapporteur met with Indigenous women and children, representatives of Indigenous and civil society organizations, fishing and hunting organizations, organizations of persons with disabilities, academics, the Danish Institute for Human Rights, the Human Rights Council of Greenland, the National Advocacy Centre for Children’s Rights and the United Nations Children’s Fund and the Spokesperson for Persons with Disabilities in Greenland. He travelled to Copenhagen, Nuuk and Sisimiut. II. Institutional and legal framework 4. The Special Rapporteur recognizes the leading role of Denmark in promoting Indigenous Peoples’ rights internationally and in intergovernmental settings and encourages its Government to continue this important commitment. 5. International treaties ratified by Denmark apply to Greenland unless territorial declarations have been made by the Government of Greenland. Territorial declarations restricting the application of treaties in Greenland include the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure, the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Paris Agreement and the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus Convention). 6. Denmark voted in favour of the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007 and, in 1996, ratified the International Labour Organization Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169). However, upon ratification of the Convention, the Governments of Denmark and Greenland declared that Denmark had only one Indigenous People in the sense of the Convention, the Inuit in Greenland. The Special Rapporteur considers that declaration contrary to international 2 GE.23-13414