US EditionOver 350 Greenlandic women and girls forcibly given contraception by Danish officials, report says
An independent investigation found over 350 Greenlandic Indigenous women were forcibly contracepted without consent from the 1960s to 1991, leading to official apologies and lawsuits.
- More than 350 Greenlandic Indigenous women and girls were forcibly given contraception by Danish health authorities, some as young as 12, according to an independent report released on Tuesday.
- The victims were fitted with intrauterine devices or given hormonal injections without consent or knowledge of the procedures, according to the report.
- Danish and Greenlandic governments issued apologies for their roles in this mistreatment prior to the report's release, which noted 488 cases between 1960 and 1991.
- Inuit women filed lawsuits against Denmark last year, claiming that Danish health authorities violated their rights by imposing contraceptive measures.
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Hundreds of Greenlandic Indigenous women and girls, some as young as 12, say they were forcibly given contraception by Danish health authorities
The governments of Denmark and Greenland apologized last month for their roles in the historic mistreatment in an attempt to get ahead of the report.
One in two Greenlanders was laid in the 1970s, mostly without consent, as part of the birth control campaign on the Arctic island, revealed a historic investigation on Tuesday.
Over 350 Greenlandic Women, Girls Forcibly Given Contraception By Denmark
More than 350 Greenlandic Indigenous women and girls, including some 12 years old and younger, reported that they were forcibly given contraception by Danish health authorities in cases that date back to the 1960s.
Hundreds of Greenlandic women and girls were forcibly given contraception between 1960 and 1991, report says
More than 350 Greenlandic Indigenous women and girls, including some 12 years old and younger, were forcibly given contraception by Danish health authorities in cases that date back to the 1960s.
Report finds hundreds of Inuit girls were forcibly given contraception in Greenland
More than 350 Greenlandic Indigenous women and girls, including some 12 years old and younger, reported that they were forcibly given contraception by Danish health authorities in cases that date back to the 1960s, according to an independent investigation’s findings released Tuesday.
Winnipeg Free Press
Over 350 Greenlandic women and girls forcibly given contraception by Danish officials, report says
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