Niels-Erik Hansen Law Firm @OHCHR – Registry of Human Rights complaints on behalf of clients in Denmark
Niels-Erik Hansen – Advokat
The focus is thus on the work of the UN Committee on Human Rights, and the other UN Committees on Torture, Women, and Children, etc. with regard to individual cases from Denmark.
Please note that all the Committees have found Denmark in violation of the internationally agreed human rights standards in one or more cases. Most cases relate to the principle of Non-Refoulement and on this page you find the first decision by the Committee on the Rights of Women with regard to a violation of this principle ( CEDAW 53/2013 ). Also the Committee on the Rights of the Child in its first decision found Denmark in violation of the principle of Non refoulement ( CRC 3/2016 ). Similar violations
Additionally, note that many cases were discontinued because after an international petition was launched, the case was reopened at a national level. For example the Syrian asylum seekers were rejected and complained before the war started. UN took on their cases and later they got asylum from the Danish authorities themselves and thus their cases were discontinued. The same happened to asylum seekers from Eritrea. Since the decision was positive at the national level, the Committee decided to stop the proc
Niels-Erik Hansen Law Firm @OHCHR – Registry of Human Rights complaints on behalf of clients in Denmark
Niels-Erik Hansen – Advokat