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Evening Standard
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Lydia Chantler-Hicks

Greenland women seek compensation after involuntary birth control scandal

A group of women in Greenland are seeking compensation from Denmark over an involuntary birth control campaign launched in the 1960s, their lawyer has said.

At least 4,500 women and girls as young as 13 are said to have been fitted with coils between 1966 and 1970, without their knowledge or consent.

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