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In general conditions for people living with disabilities are moving in the wrong direction in Denmark. From removing accessibility standards from building codes to lack of access to cultural life to placing disabled children in prison-like institutions to not providing sign language training for staff in care facilities everything is getting worse. Political leaders, bureaucrats and the general public is mostly disinterested and unaware of the rights of disabled people and ableism and negative stereotypes about people with disabilities are common.

The committee is especially critical of Denmark's failure to properly implement the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities into national legislation and the lack of a comprehensive national action plan that addresses all areas of the convention.

The committee is concerned about the "prevalence and increasing use of coercion, forced treatment and restrictive practices [...] including physical and chemical restraints against children and adults with disabilities in social care and psychiatric institutions". The use of force in the psychiatric system has increased by 25% over the last decade with physical and chemical restraints now being used nearly 20.000 times a year.

To make matters worse, Denmark's rubber-stamp parliament have recently weakened protections against abuse, making it easier for institutions to use force against people with disabilities while relaxing the requirements for documenting these incidents.

Denmark's system of state racism is also being criticised for neglecting the needs of mentally disabled refugees as well as for for making it increasingly harder to be exempt from the stringent language and knowledge tests when applying for citizenship.

The policy of so-called "inclusion" in public schools was presented by political leaders as a progressive initiative to integrate special need students in mainstream classrooms. In practice it has been an austerity measure intended to save on costly special education rather than helping special needs students. Little to no resources were earmarked to accommodate special needs students. It has predictably been an utter failure for students, teachers and classmates. The committee is criticising this failure and nothing how it is negatively affecting the schooling of special needs students.

The healthcare system, often considered the crown jewel of the Danish welfare state, is not escaping harsh criticism either. People with disabilities frequently encounter discrimination in healthcare, leading to serious consequences, including significantly lower life expectancies for certain disabled groups compared to the general population.

Another area of concern is the vast disparity in service quality between municipalities, which effectively turns what should be guaranteed rights into a geographic lottery.

Thorkild Olesen, chairman of the Danish Handicap Organisations, is not surprised and says that "it is time for a political change of paradigm so people with disabilities are seen as an investment, not an expense".

Sophie Hæstorp Andersen, head of the nation's Social Democrat-controlled ministry of social and housing affairs, has so far refused in-depth questions from the media but has released a brief statement through Ritzau, promising to engage in dialogue with disabled people's organizations.