A/HRC/48/10 Danish asylum system, that is, the protection should be temporary in nature and should last as long as there was a threat, would be followed. 8. Denmark received 199 recommendations during its review in 2016. The Government supported 122 of them; after the completion of a voluntary mid-term review, it decided to support an additional five recommendations. The delegation presented to the Human Rights Council several measures taken by the Government in follow up to those recommendations. 9. Denmark finalized all necessary legal reforms to be in a position to ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. It was noted that the Government would forward the ratification instrument to the United Nations depository of multilateral treaties in the coming months. 10. In 2018, the Parliament adopted an Act on prohibition against discrimination on grounds of disability, which prohibited direct and indirect discrimination in public and private spheres. An amendment to the Act, adopted in 2020, was aimed at ensuring the provision of a reasonable accommodation in public and private schools and day-care centres. The Danish Board of Equal Treatment was authorized to consider complaints concerning the lack of reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities, as well as to award compensation. 11. Concerning violence against women, the delegation highlighted that Denmark had increased the maximum penalty for violence in close relationships in 2017. Additionally, legislative changes adopted in 2019 and 2021 criminalized psychological violence in close relationships. Denmark amended the legal definition of rape in the Criminal Code to qualify sex without consent as rape. The Government had launched several initiatives to prevent rape and to provide effective legal support to victims. 12. Denmark adopted its first national action plan on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons in 2018. In line with the action plan, the Government prepared 10 legislative proposals to further improve the protection of the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons and to explicitly prohibit discrimination, hate speech and hate crimes based on sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics. 13. According to the Constitutional Act of Denmark, persons deprived of their legal capacity could not vote in parliamentary elections. In 2019, the Parliament amended the Guardianship Act to allow partial deprivation of legal capacity to ensure the right to vote for persons partially deprived of their legal capacity. 14. During the preparation of the country’s national report, the authorities cooperated closely with the Danish Institute for Human Rights to organize countrywide public hearings about the human rights situation in Denmark, the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Subsequently, the Government revised its national report on the basis of comments received from citizens and civil society representatives. 15. One of the heads of the delegation, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Culture of the Faroe Islands, stated that their report was also finalized on the basis of inputs received during the public hearings and addressed a number of key human rights issues. 16. The Government of the Faroe Islands had chosen to be subject to seven United Nations treaties and had made contributions to the reports submitted by Denmark to the relevant the United Nations treaty bodies since 2004. The Government had also given due consideration to recommendations received from the United Nations human rights bodies. 17. It was noted that the Faroe Islands was a close-knit community with strong, local democratic institutions and social cohesion. Although a national human rights institution was yet to be established, there were several mechanisms in place to ensure the protection of human rights. 18. One of the heads of the delegation, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greenland, stated that as an archipelago spanning an enormous territory, Greenland faced some challenges in ensuring the full enjoyment of human rights by everyone, including in the area of equal and effective access to services, owing to a lack of roads and to a reliance on transportation infrastructure, mainly by sea. 3