Dozens of women in Greenland have heard Denmark's prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, formally apologise for a scandal that involved thousands of Inuit women being forcibly given contraceptive coils, ...
The World's Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Victoria Pihl Sørensen, a Danish historian who has studied Denmark's IUD program ...
Denmark's prime minister apologised in person on Wednesday to women who were victims of a decades-long involuntary birth control campaign, which has left islanders with deep scars and strained ...
Some Greenlanders asked why an apology had not come decades earlier, and chalked up the timing to tensions over President Trump’s aim of annexing the island.
Danish and Greenlandic leaders will apologise Wednesday for decades of forced contraception of Indigenous women in Greenland, including the forced insertion of IUDs, a policy that traumatised ...
Denmark and Greenland formally apologized for their role in a forced contraception program believed to have targeted thousands of Indigenous girls and women in the Arctic territory dating back to the ...
The apology by Mette Frederiksen in Greenland’s capital, Nuuk, hopes to close a traumatic chapter in Greenland's history.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- At age 13, Katrine Petersen was fitted with a contraceptive device by Danish doctors without her consent. She had become pregnant, and after doctors in the Greenlandic town of ...
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — At age 13, Katrine Petersen was fitted with a contraceptive device by Danish doctors without her consent. She had become pregnant, and after doctors in the Greenlandic town ...