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The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) recommended that Denmark ensure the application of aggravating circumstances for bias motivation, where relevant, and are setting up a monitoring system on the use of such provisions and instructions from the Director of Public Prosecutions obliging prosecutors to raise racist motivation of a criminal offence in court.

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) issued an opinion in the case of Mahali Dawas and Yousef Shava v. Denmark examining the state duty to take effective action against acts of discrimination and to provide effective remedies in relation to adequate investigation and prosecution of hate crimes. The case concerned a family of Iraqi immigrants in Denmark who were subjected to repeated racist abuse in their housing complex, culminating in a crowd entering their residence and assaulting them. The Committee found that the subsequent police investigation and prosecution failed to adequately investigate the potential bias motivations of the crime under the obligations of the treaty.