Copenhagen, Nov 26, 2024 (AFP) - Greenland to compensate 15 forced contraception victims

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2024-11-26

Greenland will compensate 15 women who were victims of a forced contraception campaign affecting its Indigenous population, the Danish autonomous territory's finance minister said Tuesday. Between the 1960s and the 1990s, Danish authorities forced more than 4,500 young Inuit women to wear a contraceptive coil -- or intrauterine device (IUD) -- without their or their family's consent. The campaign was aimed at limiting the birth rate in the Arctic......

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