US EditionDenmark and Greenland apologize to Inuit women over forced contraception in the past
Danish and Greenlandic governments acknowledge systemic discrimination and physical and psychological harm caused to nearly half of Greenland's fertile women by forced contraception in mid-20th century.
- Denmark and Greenland apologized for their roles in the mistreatment of Greenlandic Indigenous girls and women, including forced contraception from the 1960s.
- Nearly 150 Inuit women sued Denmark, claiming violations of their human rights involving IUDs without consent.
- Danish authorities stated that approximately 4,500 women and girls received IUDs during the 1960s to mid-1970s.
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der Standard DEIn the 1960s, IUDs were implanted in minors despite a lack of consent. Now the Danish Prime Minister has apologized
Denmark Apologizes To Greenland For Its Forced Depopulation Campaign
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has officially apologized for an enforced contraception campaign that was aimed at reducing birth rates among the Indigenous Inuit group in Greenland. In the 60’s and 70’s the controversial program [...] The post Denmark Apologizes To Greenland For Its Forced Depopulation Campaign appeared first on The People's Voice.
The first Danish minister defined systematic discrimination as the practice carried out between the 1960s and 1970s in Greenland.
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