Editing Denmark (section)

=== Human rights ===
{{Main|Human rights in Denmark}}

Denmark is usually considered a [[Progressivism|progressive]] country, which has adopted [[legislation]] and [[Public policy|policies]] to support [[women in Denmark|women's rights]], [[minority rights]], and [[LGBT rights in Denmark|LGBT rights]]. Human rights in Denmark are protected by the state's Constitution of the [[Realm of Denmark|Realm]] ''([[Constitution of Denmark|Danmarks Riges Grundlov]])''; applying equally in Denmark proper, [[Greenland]] and the [[Faroe Islands]], and through the [[ratification]] of [[International human rights instruments|international human rights treaties]].<ref name=":8">{{Cite web|url=https://www.humanrights.dk/research/human-rights-in-denmark|title=Human rights in Denmark|website=The Danish Institute for Human Rights|language=en|access-date=14 May 2019|archive-date=25 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190725111022/https://humanrights.dk/research/human-rights-in-denmark|url-status=dead}}</ref> Denmark has held a significant role in the adoption of both the [[European Convention on Human Rights]] and in the establishment of the [[European Court of Human Rights]] (ECHR). In 1987, the [[Folketing|Kingdom Parliament]] (''Folketinget'') established a national human rights institution, the Danish Centre of Human Rights, now the [[Danish Institute for Human Rights]].<ref name=":8" />

In 2009, a referendum on changing the [[Danish Act of Succession]] were held to grant [[absolute primogeniture]] to the Danish throne, meaning that the eldest child, regardless of gender, takes precedence in the line of succession. As it was not retroactive, the current successor to the throne is the eldest son of the King, rather than his eldest child. The Danish constitution Article 2 states that "The monarchy is inherited by men and women".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thedanishparliament.dk/-/media/pdf/publikationer/english/the_constitutional_act_of_denmark_2013,-d-,pdf.ashx |title=The Constitutional Act of Denmark  |publisher=Folketinget.dk |access-date=21 October 2020 |archive-date=2 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210702131614/https://www.thedanishparliament.dk/-/media/pdf/publikationer/english/the_constitutional_act_of_denmark_2013,-d-,pdf.ashx |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The [[Inuit]] have for decades been the subject of [[discrimination]] and [[abuse]] by the [[Danish colonization of the Americas|dominant colonisers from Europe]], those countries claiming possession of Inuit lands. The Inuit have never been a single community in a single region of Inuit.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.inuitcircumpolar.com/press-releases/four-countries-one-people-inuit-strengthen-arctic-co-operation/|title=Four Countries, One People: Inuit Strengthen Arctic Co-operation &#124; Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada|date=24 November 2016|access-date=21 October 2020|archive-date=24 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024044952/https://www.inuitcircumpolar.com/press-releases/four-countries-one-people-inuit-strengthen-arctic-co-operation/|url-status=live}}</ref> From the 18th century up to the 1970s, the Danish government (Dano-Norwegian until 1814) tried to assimilate the [[Indigenous people]] of Greenland, the [[Greenlandic Inuit]], encouraging them to adopt the majority language, culture and religion.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Archibald |first=Linda |url=https://ehprnh2mwo3.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/ibpengweb.pdf |title=Decolonization and Healing: Indigenous Experiences in the United States, New Zealand, Australia and Greenland |publisher=Aboriginal Healing Foundation |year=2006 |isbn=9781897285145 |pages=22–23}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=January 2025|reason=The source does not support this statement. It does state that a Danish mission started in 1721, but the schools only started teaching Danish in 1928, according to the source.}} Denmark has been greatly criticised by the Greenlandic community for the politics of ''Danisation'' (1950s and 1960s) of and discrimination against the Indigenous population of the country.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Petersen |first=Robert |date=1995 |title=Colonialism as Seen from a Former Colonized Area |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40316390 |journal=Arctic Anthropology |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=121 |jstor=40316390 |issn=0066-6939 }}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last1=Kočí |first1=Adam |last2=Baar |first2=Vladimír |date=2021-08-08 |title=Greenland and the Faroe Islands: Denmark's autonomous territories from postcolonial perspectives |journal=Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift – Norwegian Journal of Geography |language=en |volume=75 |issue=4 |pages=193–194 |doi=10.1080/00291951.2021.1951837 |issn=0029-1951|doi-access=free |bibcode=2021NGTid..75..189K }}</ref> Critical treatment paying non-Inuit workers higher wages than the local people, the relocation of entire families from their traditional lands into settlements, and separating children from their parents and sending them away to Denmark for schooling has been practised.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Hardt |first=Sofia Stærmose |date=2018 |title='By Gifts One Makes Slaves': Long-term Effects of Denmark's Colonization of Greenland |type=Senior project |publisher=Bard College |url=https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1276&context=senproj_s2018 |access-date=21 October 2020 |archive-date=23 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023192718/https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1276&context=senproj_s2018 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>[https://saammaatta.gl//~/media/Forsoningskommission/Diverse/Endelig%20betænkning%20DK.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023132726/https://saammaatta.gl//~/media/Forsoningskommission/Diverse/Endelig%20bet%C3%A6nkning%20DK.pdf|date=23 October 2020}} Report published by the Greenland Reconciliation Commission</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Høeg |first=Kirstine |year=2019 |title=Forced assimilation of Indigenous children: The case of the Danish-Greenlandic experiment |url=https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1483358/FULLTEXT01.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231118161000/https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1483358/FULLTEXT01.pdf |archive-date=18 November 2023 |access-date=10 June 2024 |publisher=Malmö University |pages=5–6}}</ref> Nevertheless, Denmark ratified, in 1996, to recognise the [[Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989|ILO-convention 169]] on [[Indigenous people]] recommended by the UN.

Denmark was the [[History of same-sex unions|first country in the world to grant legal recognition to same-sex unions]] in the form of [[civil union|registered partnerships]] in 1989. On 7 June 2012, the law was replaced by a new [[Same-sex marriage in Denmark|same-sex marriage law]], which came into effect on 15 June 2012.<ref name=cphpost>[http://cphpost.dk/news/national/gay-marriage-legalised The Copenhagen Post, 7 June 2012: ''Gay marriage legalised''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130216001423/http://cphpost.dk/news/national/gay-marriage-legalised |date=16 February 2013 }} Retrieved 19 September 2012</ref> [[Greenland]] and the [[Faroe Islands]] legalised same-sex marriage in April 2016,<ref name="Marriage Greenland">{{cite web |url=http://www.ft.dk/RIpdf/samling/20151/lovforslag/L35/20151_L35_som_vedtaget.pdf |title=Vedtaget af Folketinget ved 3. behandling den 19. januar 2016 Forslag til Lov om ændring af myndighedsloven for Grønland, lov om ikrafttræden for Grønland af lov om ægteskabets retsvirkninger, retsplejelov for Grønland og kriminallov for Grønland |publisher=[[Folketinget]] |date=19 January 2016 |access-date=28 January 2016 |language=da |archive-date=17 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170217190144/http://www.ft.dk/RIpdf/samling/20151/lovforslag/L35/20151_L35_som_vedtaget.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> and in July 2017 respectively.<ref name=PNews2017>{{Cite news|url=http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/06/19/denmark-approves-same-sex-marriage-in-the-faroe-islands/|title=Denmark approves same-sex marriage in the Faroe Islands|publisher=Pink News|date=19 June 2017|access-date=23 December 2017|archive-date=27 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327102308/https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/06/19/denmark-approves-same-sex-marriage-in-the-faroe-islands/|url-status=live}}</ref> In January 2016, a resolution was implemented by the [[Folketing|Danish parliament]] which prevented [[transgender]] identity being classified as a [[Mental disorder|mental health condition]]. In doing so, Denmark became the first country in [[Europe]] to go against the [[World Health Organization]] (WHO) standards, which classified transgender identity as being a mental health issue until June 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.care2.com/causes/denmark-to-the-who-trans-identity-is-not-a-mental-illness.html|title=Denmark to the WHO: Trans Identity Is Not a Mental Illness|last=Williams|first=Steve|date=20 May 2016|website=Care2 Causes|language=en|access-date=7 June 2019|archive-date=27 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327102635/https://www.care2.com/causes/denmark-to-the-who-trans-identity-is-not-a-mental-illness.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/06/20/transgender-not-mental-illness-world-health-organization/717758002/|title=Being transgender no longer classified as mental illness. Here's why|last=Simon|first=Caroline|date=20 June 2018|website=USA Today|language=en|access-date=7 June 2019|archive-date=6 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210806153507/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/06/20/transgender-not-mental-illness-world-health-organization/717758002/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In its 2024 [[Freedom in the World]] report, [[Freedom House]] rated the country "[[Freedom|free]]" with a score of 97 (out of 100).<ref name=FreedomintheWorld2024/>