In a report on Denmark published on Thursday 9 June, the Council of Europe Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) focuses on discrimination against Muslims.
ECRI calls, as a matter of priority, for a “National Action Plan against Racism” focusing on these populations and including measures for education, awareness-raising, promotion of a counter-discourse and training of the professionals concerned. Measures to ensure a proportion of Muslim and other minority staff in these professions are also called for.
Referring to the law introduced in March 2021 to ensure that the population of “non-Western” origin does not exceed 30% in each neighbourhood within ten years, ECRI calls on the authorities to avoid forced evictions of families of immigrant origin in so-called “parallel society” neighbourhoods and expresses concern about the classification of migrants into “westerners” and “non-westerners”, which risks stigmatising the latter in many areas of public action.
ECRI also welcomes the development of a national action plan against antisemitism (January 2022) and the new actions taken on behalf of LGBTI people.
Link to the report: https://aeur.eu/f/21s (Original version in English by Véronique Leblanc)