expression, as well as freedom of assembly and association. The law also took insufficient action to tackle anti-Muslim hatred, one of the underlying reasons for these Qur’an burnings. RIGHT TO A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT In August, two climate activists were fined for an earlier act of civil disobedience in 2021, instead of receiving prison terms demanded by the state prosecutor. ARBITRARY DEPRIVATION OF NATIONALITY The Supreme Court ruled in March that the Ministry of Immigration had breached the principle of proportionality by withdrawing Danish nationality from a woman in 2020, who was being held with her two children in the prison-like camp of Al-Roj in Syria at the time. A seven-year-old boy in Al-Roj camp was the only child of Danish nationality who had not been offered a return to Denmark together with his mother. IMPUNITY In March, the government announced the establishment of a committee of experts in June to revise the Penal Code to include war crimes, crimes against humanity and torture as distinct criminal acts. In October, the European Court of Human Rights communicated with the Danish government on the case of Abdulaal Naser and Others v. Denmark, the so-called “Green Desert” case, for consideration on whether the Ministry of Defence is jointly responsible with the UK government for the torture of Iraqi civilians detained by Danish troops in 2004 during the Iraq War. As of the end of the year, the Court had not yet made a decision on the merits of the case. TORTURE AND OTHER ILL-TREATMENT In December, the UN Committee against Torture launched its concluding observations on Denmark’s eighth periodic report, expressing concerns about compliance with 152 the convention, particularly about the treatment of refugees. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Dominican Republic Discrimination remained widespread and structural, particularly affecting Haitians or Dominicans of Haitian descent. Congress failed to protect women, children and LGBTI people from gender-based violence and hate crimes. Law enforcement officials continued to use excessive force. DISCRIMINATION Discrimination against Haitians or people of Haitian descent and anti-Black racism continued. Women and girls, LGBTI people, migrants, asylum seekers and refugees were particularly at risk.1 Pregnant and post-partum women seeking medical attention were discriminated against if the authorities considered them to be Haitian. Immigration authorities and law enforcement officials visited hospitals to search for migrant women and girls to arbitrarily arrest and deport them. In September, seven UN human rights mechanisms warned about the risk of refoulement and human rights abuses in relation to measures against pregnant women, and called on the authorities to separate migration control from access to public services. ARBITRARY DEPRIVATION OF NATIONALITY Ten years since the ruling of the Constitutional Court that retroactively deprived thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent of their nationality, the government still had not taken sufficient measures to mitigate and repair the human rights violations caused.2 The authorities failed to The State of the World’s Human Rights