The Danish government presented a new action plan comprising 36 new initiatives designed to reduce incidents of racism and strengthen civil society efforts to do so, as well as to promote research on the topic. This long-awaited action plan follows the action plan for ethnic equality of 2010 and the action plan against antisemitism of 2022. 

18 civil society organisations working on relevant issues, as well as the national institute for human rights, were consulted in 2022 by the minister for immigration and integration at that time, Mattias Tesfaye, on creation of the plan, although it is unclear to what extent their feedback was taken into account. Its publication follows a recommendation made by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) in 2022, which suggested that Danish authorities “introduce a national action plan against racism, with a particular emphasis on preventing anti-Muslim racism and discrimination”. Rather than directly referencing islamophobia or Muslims, the plan refers only to Jews and Greenlanders as target groups for racism.

The action plan mentions the importance of civil society initiatives in combatting racism and allocates increased funding to doing so. The 36 initiatives cover the following areas:

• 12 measures concern racism against Greenlanders
• 5 promote increased research and knowledge on racism
• 4 target racism among children and young people
• 2 seek to prevent discrimination at nightclubs
• 3 focus on racism in the labour market
• 1 investigates racism in the private housing market
• 5 concern radicalism motivated by racism
• 3 are designed to monitor and reduce racism and hate speech on digital platforms

2 final initiatives concern the establishment of a new public fund to support civil society initiatives and continuous collaboration with international bodies to fight racism.