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Denmark Apologises For Greenland Forced Contraception

Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (R) was joined by Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen to make the apology (Credit: AFP)

Denmark's prime minister on Wednesday presented a long-awaited apology to the victims of Denmark's forced contraception campaign in Greenland, lifting a key point of tension with its autonomous territory.

From the 1960s until 1992, Danish authorities forced around 4,500 Inuit women, around half of those of child-bearing age, to wear a contraceptive coil -- or intrauterine device (IUD) -- without their consent.

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