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Greenland Inuit women to receive compensation over forced contraception

Denmark has reached an agreement to compensate thousands of Greenlandic Inuit women and girls who were fitted with intrauterine devices (IUDs) without their knowledge or consent under a decades‑long birth control campaign. Records uncovered in 2022 revealed that from the 1960s through to 1991, when Greenland gained control of its healthcare system, Danish authorities had […]