The 'Spiral Campaign': Denmark’s forced contraception case of Inuit women | Explained
Thousands of Greenlandic Inuit women and girls were fitted with IUDs without their consent between the 1960s and 1990s, in a birth-control programme…
According to The Hindu, thousands of Greenlandic Inuit women and girls were fitted with IUDs without their consent between the 1960s and 1990s, in a birth-control programme reportedly aimed at controlling the island’s population; decades later, Denmark has apologised and approved compensation for the historic wrong, while questions of accountability, colonialism and human rights violations remain unresolved.
This world story centres on Denmark. Names and organisations mentioned in the coverage include Spiral Campaign', Explained and Thousands of Greenlandic Inuit.
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