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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent

Danish treatment of Greenlandic mother may be ‘ethnic discrimination’, says UN

Keira Alexandra Kronvold holding bunch of flowers.
Keira Alexandra Kronvold remains separated from her daughter, Zammi, despite the FKU psychometric tests being scrapped last year. Photograph: Juliette Pavy/The Guardian

The United Nations has warned Denmark that the treatment of a Greenlandic mother whose newborn child was removed by Danish authorities as a result of controversial parenting competency tests “may amount to ethnic discrimination”.

Keira Alexandra Kronvold’s daughter, Zammi, was taken away from her when she was two hours old and placed in foster care in November 2024 after Kronvold was subjected to so-called FKU (parental competence) psychometric tests. At the time, she was told that the test was to see if she was “civilised enough”.

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