nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20180504-191301 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 180504s2018||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20180504-191301 doi eng 342 23 Christoffersen, Jonas Author aut The Danish Institute for Human Rights and the Copenhagen Declaration – a Reply to Helga Molbæk-Steensig Christoffersen, Jonas Verfassungsblog 2018-05-04 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In her blog post “Is Something Rotten in the State of Denmark?”, Helga Molbæk-Steensig analyses the making of the Copenhagen Declaration; the most important outcome of the Danish chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe. Molbæk-Steensig agrees with most commentators that the declaration does not reflect the Danish government’s “strong discourse of sovereignty and democratic deficit in the Danish debate“. We certainly agree on this point, but we cannot agree with Molbæk-Steensig when she claims that we – Denmark’s national human rights institution – played a passive, or even negative, role during the making of the declaration. We especially disagree when Molbæk-Steensig implies that we somehow legitimise a far-right narrative designed to limit the system of human rights protection in Europe or subscribe to a reductionist concept of democracy. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Copenhagen Declaration European Convention of Human Rights Svinth, Dorthe Elise Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-danish-institute-for-human-rights-and-the-copenhagen-declaration-a-reply-to-helga-molbaek-steensig/ raw object