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France 24
Politics
Cyrielle CABOT

‘Like knives penetrating me’: Greenland’s victims of forced contraception seek justice

A woman and her children pass the Greenland County Council Hall in the streets of Nuuk on April 19, 2018. © Christian Klindt Soelbeck, AFP

In the late 1960s, Denmark implemented a brutal contraceptive policy to limit births in its former colony of Greenland, forcing thousands of teenage girls to have IUDs inserted without their consent. After decades of repressing their trauma, the women are now speaking out and demanding reparation.

Naja Lyberth still has vivid memories of the ordeal she went through as a schoolgirl in Greenland, almost 50 years ago.  

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