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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Reports split over whether forced contraception of Greenlandic women and girls constituted genocide

Denmark Greenland Forced Contraception - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Two reports investigating the forcible contraception of thousands of Indigenous women and girls in Greenland by Danish health authorities for decades were split over whether the practice constituted genocide.

The Greenlandic government, which commissioned the inquiry, released the reports Friday but, when pressed by journalists during a news conference, would not say whether its leaders concluded whether a genocide had occurred. The government told the authors to use the definition under the United Nations' 1948 genocide convention, which includes “imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group.”

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