(1) Define consent in the new criminal provision on rape, strengthen awareness-raising and education with regard to the new definition of rape, specifically targeting young women and men, and introduce the consent-based definition of rape in Greenland and the Faroe Islands; (2) Strengthen its legislative and policy framework on domestic violence, with a special focus on women who are victims of violence throughout the territory of the State party and avoiding the use of gender-neutral terms, in accordance with the Istanbul Convention, and ensure the application of the new section 243 in the Criminal Code on psychological violence and abuse to cases in which women, in particular women belonging to certain ethnic and religious groups, are retained in marriages against their will, while at the same time specifically criminalizing such retention, as well as religious marriages of girls and boys; (3) Provide sufficient numbers of shelters, which must be accessible, for women who are victims of gender-based violence, taking into account their specific needs, including the need to avoid their relocation in the event that designated shelters are fully occupied; (4) Take urgent measures to address the high rate of sexual violence against women with disabilities, in particular intellectual or psychosocial disabilities; (5) Ensure that victims of sexual harassment in the workplace and the education system have access to effective remedies, take steps to provide for the liability of employers for sexual harassment in the workplace if they have taken insufficient measures to prevent such harassment, encourage employers to regularly review their company culture and accelerate the establishment of a whistle-blower hotline for reporting unlawful behaviour, including sexual harassment; (6) Evaluate the Greenlandic Strategy and Action Plan against Violence (2014–2017) and adopt a new strategy and action plan to combat gender-based violence, including sexual and domestic violence, against women and girls, including women and girls with disabilities, linking it to the prevention of suicide, substance abuse and the action plan on parental neglect, with clear goals and mechanisms for prevention, monitoring and follow-up, and continue to implement measures under the Alliaq programme, which targets perpetrators of domestic violence, and under the expired strategy; (7) Ensure the collection and analysis of data, disaggregated by sex, age, nationality and disability, on gender-based violence against women and girls in Greenland and the Faroe Islands; (8) Extend the application of the Istanbul Convention to Greenland and the Faroe Islands.

(1) Continue to raise awareness about trafficking in persons, in particular women and girls, and systematically collect comprehensive information and relevant statistical data about victims of trafficking, disaggregated by sex, age, nationality, employment and economic status, in particular in Greenland and the Faroe Islands, and report them to the Committee in its next periodic report; (2) Adopt a human rights-based approach in its efforts to combat trafficking, emphasizing the status of women as victims of trafficking rather than criminalizing them; prioritize the prevention of trafficking and retrafficking, protection of victims and prosecution of perpetrators; and revise immigration policies to ensure that laws and policies on the deportation of migrant women are not applied in a discriminatory manner, do not deter migrants, refugees and asylum seekers from reporting crimes of trafficking and do not undermine efforts to prevent trafficking in persons, identify or protect victims, or prosecute perpetrators; (3) Raise awareness, including at school and among families, about the risks of trafficking, including the recruitment of victims through the Internet; (4) Reassign the necessary human, technical and financial resources to the anti-trafficking unit within the Department of Violent Crimes of the Copenhagen Police to enable it to carry out its mandate to detect and investigate crimes of trafficking in persons effectively.

(1) Reverse legislative and administrative barriers to family reunification for women who are beneficiaries of international protection; (2) Apply the legal provisions concerning residence status on the basis of family reunification to all migrant and refugee women regardless of marital status.