Recommendations
(A/HRC/10/44/Add.2)
Situation during visit in 2008
Information received in the reporting
Steps taken in previous years and (See
A/HRC/13/39/Add.6; A/HRC/16/52/Add.2A) period
2% did not know. Furthermore, the
investigation showed that 66% would notify
the police if they knew about a case of
trafficking.
(e) Ensure that, where
arrangements exist for male
and female detainees to be
accommodated in the same
premises, the decision of a
woman to be placed together
with men is based on her
completely free and informed
decision, and scrupulously
monitor appropriate
safeguards to prevent abuse.
Practice of accommodating
male and female detainees in the
same premises, based on the
principle of normalization;
while in most places such
arrangements were voluntary,
this was not the case in Nuuk
Prison in Greenland.
Government: Special attention will be paid
to the placement of female inmates in
connection with the establishment of the
new institution in Nuuk, which is planned to
open in 2013.
According to the Chief Governor of
Institutions in Greenland, no cases of
violence or sexual abuse of women have
been registered in the existing institution in
Nuuk even though close relationships are
sometimes formed between female and male
inmates. In addition, nothing indicates that
the women form relationships with male
inmates for protection purposes.
Staff will continue their awareness of the
female inmates and of the need to intervene
if there are any signs of imbalance in the
relationship or problems between male and
female inmates.
A/HRC/19/61/Add.3
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Government: The Director of the Prison
and Probation Services in Greenland has
reported that there have been no changes in
the situation concerning female detainees in
Nuuk Prison. The practice of the prison and
Probation Service to place inmates-male or
female-as close to home as possible, implies
that women serving a sentence in Greenland
will be placed in units together with male
inmates. The Director of the Prison and
Probation Service in Greenland has been
instructed to monitor the situation closely,
and should problems related to placing
female inmates together with male inmates
arise, the Prison and Probation Service will
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