Human rights in Greenland - status 2016
In this report, the Danish Institute for Human Rights and the Human Rights Council of Greenland provide a status of the human rights situation in Greenland 2016 in the following selected areas:
- Implementation of human rights
- Children and youth
- Disability
- Equal treatment
- Natural resources
- Access to justice and loss of liberty
- Rule of law in local authorities and the self-rule government
- Dissemination of human rights
- Education
The report provides an overview and raises a number of human rights issues for each area. In addition, we provide an overview of the development of human rights within each area and we give recommendations on how to strengthen human rights in Greenland in these areas. It is our intention to update this report updated regularly and over time include other relevant human rights topics.
This summary briefly describes each of the selected areas and accounts for the most substantial recommendations.
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