CRC/C/DNK/CO/4
(b)
To amend its Administration of Justice Act: (i) to clearly define the
conditions for pretrial detention; and (ii) to, as far as possible, limit its duration, and
prohibit the placement of persons under the age of 18 in solitary confinement;
(c)
To consider repealing the recent amendment to the Penal Code which
removes the upper limit of eight years for prison sentences issued to persons below the
age of 18;
(d)
To take measures to ensure that no child, regardless of circumstance, is
subjected to imprisonment in the ordinary prison system with adults.
Children belonging to minority or indigenous groups
67.
The Committee regrets that the State party has yet to fully implement the
recommendations of the Human Rights Committee in 2008 (CCPR/C/DNK/CO/5, para. 13)
and the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in 2010
(CERD/C/DNK/CO/18-19, para. 17) to uphold the identity of the Inughuit as a distinct
indigenous community capable of vindicating traditional rights in accordance with
international norms.
68.
The Committee reiterates the recommendations of the Human Rights
Committee in 2008 (CCPR/C/DNK/CO/5, para. 13) and the Committee on the
Elimination of Racial Discrimination in 2010 (CERD/C/DNK/CO/18-19, para. 17) and
urges the State party to, in accordance with the Committee’s general comment No. 11
(2009) on indigenous children and their rights under the Convention, take all
measures necessary for ensuring that Inughuit children are able to exercise their right
to grow up in a safe cultural environment, maintain and develop their identity and use
their own language without being disqualified and discriminated against.
H.
Ratification of international human rights instruments
69.
The Committee urges the State party to extend the applicability of the Optional
Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child
prostitution and child pornography and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish
Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United
Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, to Greenland and the
Faroe Islands. The Committee also recommends that the State party consider
ratifying the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant
Workers and Members of Their Families (1990) and the Optional Protocol to the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006).
I.
Follow-up and dissemination
70.
The Committee recommends that the State party take all appropriate measures
to ensure the full implementation of the present recommendations by, inter alia,
transmitting them to the Head of State, the Supreme Court, Parliament, relevant
ministries and local authorities for appropriate consideration and further action.
71.
The Committee further recommends that the fourth periodic report and
written replies submitted by the State party and the related recommendations
(concluding observations) be made widely available in the languages of the country
(including translation into most common languages of immigrants and refugees
residing in Denmark), including (but not exclusively) through the Internet to the
public at large, civil society organizations, youth groups, professional groups and
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