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

Denmark plans payout for Greenlandic women affected by forced IUD scandal

Mette Frederiksen
Mette Frederiksen said the women had been ‘subjected to failure and systematic discrimination because they are Greenlanders’. Photograph: Emil Nicolai Helms/EPA

Denmark intends to pay reparations to Greenlandic women who were fitted with contraceptive coils by Danish doctors and to other people in its former colony who were subjected to “systematic discrimination because they are Greenlanders”, the Danish prime minister has said.

In a historic move for relations between Copenhagen and Nuuk, Mette Frederiksen said on Monday she would discuss a planned “reconciliation fund” when she visited Greenland on Wednesday for an event to mark Denmark’s official apology for the IUD (intrauterine device) scandal.

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