US EditionDenmark and Greenland apologize to Inuit women over forced contraception in the past
Denmark and Greenland plan compensation for nearly 4,500 Indigenous women fitted with contraceptive devices without consent during population control efforts in the 1960s-70s.
- Denmark and Greenland apologized for forcing contraceptive devices on Inuit women between the 1960s and 1970s, allegedly to limit population growth.
- Nearly 150 Inuit women sued Denmark last year, claiming the practice violated their human rights.
- Danish authorities said up to 4,500 women and girls, half of the fertile Greenlandic population at the time, received coil implants.
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For years, Danish doctors inserted intrauterine devices into Greenlandic girls and women without their consent, part of a painful legacy of ill-treatment
The Danish government has apologised to women in Greenland for decades of forced prevention.
Denmark has publicly apologized this Wednesday to the Greenland women who were forced, decades ago, to use contraceptive methods — often without their consent and without even being aware of it — as part of a state campaign to control the birth rate among the indigenous population of the Arctic island. “We cannot change what has happened. But we can take responsibility. That is why, on behalf of Denmark, I want to say: I am sorry,” said Prime Mi…
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen apologizes to Inuit women who were unintentionally fitted with IUDs between 1966 and 1975 because Denmark wanted to slow population growth in Greenland.
Denmark Apologises For Forced Birth Control Scandal In Greenland
Denmark's prime minister on Wednesday presented a long-awaited apology to the victims of Denmark's forced contraception campaign in Greenland, lifting a key point of tension with its autonomous territory.
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