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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

Dozens of Greenland’s Indigenous women seek compensation over forced birth control

via REUTERS

A group of women in Greenland are seeking compensation from the Danish government over an involuntary birth control campaign that was launched in the 1960s.

At least 4,500 women, including teenagers, were fitted with intrauterine devices between 1966 and 1970s without their consent, under a programme aimed at curbing the Indigenous Inuit population.

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