Coordination at national level

• Author: Justesen, Pia
• Pages: 86-86

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9COORDINATION AT NATIONAL LEVEL

The Ministry of Employment is responsible for issues of discrimination in the labour

market.258

The Ministry of Foreigners and Integration is responsible for integration issues.259 It is not

clear from the ministry’s website what kind of efforts the ministry will make to protect

genuine ethnic equality and non-discrimination.

No recent national action plan on equality and anti-discrimination has been published.

The Ministry of Social Affairs and the Interior has the overall responsibility for

coordinating disability policies.260In August 2018, more than 60 Danish disability

organisations wrote a letter to the previous Minister of Children and Social Affairs urging

the minister to prepare a comprehensive action plan on disability.261 On 13 February

2019, the DIHR published a report to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with

Disabilities262 noting that, according to the Danish Disability Index, in nine out of ten

indicators people with disabilities are in a disadvantageous position when compared to

the rest of the population.263The nine indicators are: (1) equality and non-

discrimination; (2) violence; (3) accessibility and mobility; (4) freedom and personal

integrity; (5) living independently and being included in the community; (6) education;

(7) health; (8) employment; and (9) social protection. Moreover, the trend in recent

years appears to be going in the wrong direction. In five out of the six indicators, the

numbers show that the situation for people with disabilities has deteriorated from 2012

to 2016. This is the case in terms of, for example, freedom and personal integrity,

accessibility, employment and education. The report reiterated the need for a national

action plan on disability. In June 2019, the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with

Disabilities sent its list of issues to the Danish Government, including a request for

information about the adoption of a cross-sector and human-rights-based national

disability action plan.264

258 Seehttps://bm.dk/.

259 Seehttp://uim.dk/.

260 See: https://english.sim.dk/responsibilities-of-the-ministry/disability-policy/.

261 Seehttps://menneskeret.dk/nyheder/organisationer-faelles-opraab-regeringen-danmark-mangler-

handicappolitisk-handlingsplan.

262 DIHR (2019) Report to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Prior to Adaption of List

of Issues (February 2019).

263 Figures are available in Danish at https://handicapbarometer.dk/.

264 UN Doc. CRPD/C/DNK/QPR/2-3 (30 April 2019).