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Surveillance in social security led to discrimination against marginalized groups. Parliament incorporated into the Penal Code crimes covered by the statute of the ICC. Civil society organizations started legal proceedings to halt arms exports to Israel. The Supreme Court ruled that Denmark must assist in the return of a Danish child and his mother from a prison camp in Syria.

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