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Latest items for Denmark

Oct. 24, 2025, 8:56 p.m.
Countries: Denmark
Variables: UVAW-PRACTICE-1

Oct. 24, 2025, 8:56 p.m.
Countries: Denmark
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-1

"The prime minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, made a special visit Wednesday to Greenland’s capital, Nuuk, to apologize in person for a traumatic chapter in Greenlandic history, when Danish doctors forced birth control on a whole generation of Indigenous Greenlandic women and girls" (para 2).
Oct. 24, 2025, 8:56 p.m.
Countries: Denmark
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-2, FSCB-LAW-1

"The prime minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, made a special visit Wednesday to Greenland’s capital, Nuuk, to apologize in person for a traumatic chapter in Greenlandic history, when Danish doctors forced birth control on a whole generation of Indigenous Greenlandic women and girls" (para 2). "The contraception scandal goes back to the 1960s, when the Danish government began a decades-long campaign to control the growth of Greenland’s population. Danish doctors invited Greenlandic women and girls for checkups and implanted intrauterine birth control devices in them. In many cases, the women and girls were not told what was being done and found out only years later, when they started having health...more
Sept. 5, 2025, 12:12 p.m.
Countries: Denmark
Variables: ABO-LAW-1

"Abortion on request is legal in...Denmark…" (2). "The Danish jurisdiction of the Faroe Islands also retains a highly restrictive law" (4). The Table titled “European Abortion Laws: A Comparative Overview” shows that in Albania abortion is available for socio-economic reasons, threat to life/medical reasons, threat to health/medical reasons, and sexual violence reasons on request with a waiting period and mandatory counselling. In Andorra abortion is completely banned. In Armenia abortion is available for socio-economic reasons, threat to life/medical reasons, and threat to health/medical reasons on request with a waiting period and mandatory counselling. In Austria abortion is available for threat to life/medical reasons and threat to health/medical reasons on request....more
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Variables: AFE-SCALE-1

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June 24, 2025, 9:07 a.m.
Countries: Denmark
Variables: AFE-DATA-1

The gender parity index (GPI) for gross secondary school enrollment (i.e. the ratio of gross enrollment of girls to gross enrollment of boys at the secondary level) is .99. This number was found by using the World Bank's data for secondary school gross enrollment for girls and boys. As of 2022, the gross enrollment rate for females is 130% while the gross enrollment rate for males is 131%. (CEC2 - CODER COMMENT).
April 1, 2025, 7:34 p.m.
Countries: Denmark, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States
Variables: IIP-PRACTICE-2

"A survey of women aged 18 – 55 in Denmark, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the USA found that 23 per cent of women reported at least one experience of online abuse or harassment" (para 13).
March 27, 2025, 10:21 a.m.
Countries: Denmark
Variables: CUST-LAW-3

"The child’s father must pay child support even if on incorrect registration as biological father" (6). "Child support is, calculated based entirely on the non-residential parent’s income. Child support is, calculated without taking into account the non-residential parent’s ability to pay. Child support is, calculated so that there is no incentive for non-residential parents to make earnings. Child support is, granted although the parent is already supporting the child" (11). "Fathers must pay child support abroad in contravention of 'Order public'" (12). "Fathers must stop requiring 50/50 parenting time in order to avoid child support" (18). Child support is not mandatory if parenting time is split 50/50 (ELW - CODER...more
March 27, 2025, 10:21 a.m.
Countries: Denmark
Variables: GIC-LAW-1

"When Denmark introduced twelve months of parental leave, the intention was for the child to have leave with both parents. This to increase the love, care, health and security for the child throughout the life. The Danish fathers however, only take 10 percent of the parental leave and 20% state they pay themselves. This because the period is not earmarked with three months to the fathers" (8). "The Parental Leave Decree article 8, item 2 state that if the parents disagree, the public allowance is given to the parent with whom the child stays the most, which is the mother. Furthermore, the majority of fathers do not argue with a...more
March 27, 2025, 10:21 a.m.
Countries: Denmark
Variables: CUST-LAW-4

"Children can be, adopted against the father’s will, if there is not shared custody" (6).
March 27, 2025, 10:21 a.m.
Countries: Denmark
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"There is for example in Denmark alone estimated to be 13,000 men that has experienced physically violence in families" (16).
March 27, 2025, 10:21 a.m.
Countries: Denmark
Variables: GIC-LAW-2

"As EEC citizen working in Denmark, you have the right to public child allowance, if you are married or are not living together and though the child is living in another country" (11).
March 27, 2025, 10:21 a.m.
Countries: Denmark
Variables: GIC-LAW-3

"When Denmark introduced twelve months of parental leave, the intention was for the child to have leave with both parents. This to increase the love, care, health and security for the child throughout the life. The Danish fathers however, only take 10 percent of the parental leave and 20% state they pay themselves. This because the period is not earmarked with three months to the fathers" (8). "The Parental Leave Decree article 8, item 2 state that if the parents disagree, the public allowance is given to the parent with whom the child stays the most, which is the mother. Furthermore, the majority of fathers do not argue with a...more
March 27, 2025, 10:21 a.m.
Countries: Denmark
Variables: MISA-PRACTICE-1

"Fathers experience not getting help if they develop depression related to childbirth… Fathers experience there is no help when the mothers develop depression at the childbirth and they lose contact with the child" (16).
March 27, 2025, 10:21 a.m.
Countries: Denmark
Variables: TRAFF-DATA-1

"Fathers experience systematic child abductions by secret networks" (17). "Fathers experience systematic child abductions by mothers, mother networks and extreme feminists" (17).
March 27, 2025, 10:21 a.m.
Countries: Denmark
Variables: DLB-DATA-1

"The most serious discrimination against parents in the international family law today is probably the historical and culturally bound categorization of parents into residential and non-residential parents. The children and parents have hereby, very different legal, economic and procedural rights in the same situation" (9).
March 27, 2025, 10:21 a.m.
Countries: Denmark
Variables: CLCW-PRACTICE-1

"The fathers do not necessarily have the right to have their name in the child’s name" (6).
March 27, 2025, 10:21 a.m.
Countries: Denmark
Variables: CUST-LAW-1

"The child’s father does not automatically have shared custody as biological father. The child’s father does not always have shared custody because it first became standard in 2007 in DK. The child’s father can loss custody by law, although being a better parent and not the reason" (6).
March 27, 2025, 10:21 a.m.
Countries: Denmark
Variables: CLCW-LAW-2

"All children have according to the UN convention of the child article 7 the right to know and be cared, for by the parents. However, the majority of people in Denmark are not aware that, according to the National Children's Act, the child's parents are not, registered as being the biological father and mother, but as the biological mother, the husband and/or co-mother, while the biological father and co-father are not even, mentioned" (6). "1. The child’s father is by law the husband of the mother and not necessarily the child’s biological father. 2. The child’s father must be determined within 6 months, even if errors occur. 3. The child’s...more
March 27, 2025, 10:21 a.m.
Countries: Denmark
Variables: CLCC-LAW-2

"Fathers do not always get their name on the birth certificate, such as their surname or middle name" (16). This implies that a mother does not have to be married to register her child (ELW - CODER COMMENT).
March 27, 2025, 10:21 a.m.
Countries: Denmark
Variables: CBMC-DATA-1

"There is also clear evidence of indirect discrimination of fathers, where the number of children living with their father for example in Denmark is still at the level of 1980 at a time where there has been a significant development in children and fathers' parenting time" (9).
March 27, 2025, 10:21 a.m.
Countries: Denmark
Variables: ATDW-LAW-1

"Fathers must pay alimony for children abroad in contravention of 'Order public'" (12).
March 27, 2025, 10:21 a.m.
Countries: Denmark
Variables: ADCM-LAW-1

"Fathers must pay alimony for children abroad in contravention of 'Order public'. Fathers must pay maternity support abroad in contravention of 'Order public'" (12).
March 27, 2025, 10:21 a.m.
Countries: Denmark
Variables: ACR-LAW-1

"Law recognizes Co-mothers and not co-fathers, e.g. two men with a child using surrogate mother" (6).
March 27, 2025, 10:21 a.m.
Countries: Denmark
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1

"Fathers do not always want abortion but have no choice. Fathers do not always want the child to be born but has no choice" (6).
Jan. 28, 2025, 8:03 p.m.
Countries: Denmark
Variables: ERBG-LAW-2

"Despite the challenges to ensure gender equality in all fields and in both the private and public sphere, the Danish Government continuously step back from invoking article 4 and apply affirmative action as a temporary measure and driver to reach equality" (2). "Danish Women’s Society recognises the Danish Model where the labour market parties negotiate the terms and conditions for employment through collective bargaining and agreements. However, by not providing clear guidance and in the absence of a robust legal framework, the government can avoid taking responsibility for the significant pay gap between men and women that exists on the Danish labour market. In the public system the government is...more
Jan. 28, 2025, 8:03 p.m.
Countries: Denmark
Variables: GP-DATA-3

"At government level equality is under the Ministry of Food, Fisheries, Equality and Nordic Cooperation. Danish Women’s Society is concerned that this reflects the priority of equality in Denmark and contributes to the slow progress of the domestication of CEDAW in Denmark" (1). "In the previous review the Committee expressed its concern about the lack of gender-disaggregated data for violence against women, which should include disaggregated data by age, nationality, ethnicity and relationship with the perpetrator. Danish Women’s Society is pleased to see that data quality and collection has improved and that detailed data is increasingly available. The data is collected broadly at different sources and it is expected that...more
Jan. 28, 2025, 8:03 p.m.
Countries: Denmark
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1, GIC-LAW-1, GIC-LAW-3

"It should also be noted that women do not accumulate pension while on maternity leave, which lead to a significant increase in the total life income between men and women" (4).
Jan. 28, 2025, 8:03 p.m.
Countries: Denmark
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-2

"The protection framework for migrant women is very weak and women in the community often refrains from reporting violence as they risk being extradited, even though the legal framework does allow for exceptions. If they have been in Denmark for less than two years it is not possible to get an exemption, and the women must prove that they have tried to integrate into the Danish society. Migrant women in violent relationships will often have been prevented from the opportunity to integrate, will not have had the opportunity to learn the language or work, thus creating a network of support" (4).
Jan. 28, 2025, 8:03 p.m.
Countries: Denmark
Variables: ERBG-DATA-1

"However, by not providing clear guidance and in the absence of a robust legal framework, the government can avoid taking responsibility for the significant pay gap between men and women that exists on the Danish labour market" (4). "It should also be noted that women do not accumulate pension while on maternity leave, which lead to a significant increase in the total life income between men and women" (4). "Data on salaries in Denmark are collected by trade and occupation categorised in indexes that are gender neutral and consequently makes it challenging to establish the pay gap. In addition many employers try to enforce secrecy relating to salaries, and there...more