Denmark Enacts Compensation Bill for Forced IUD Program Targeting Inuit Women

Legislation has been passed to provide financial redress to thousands of Indigenous women in Greenland subjected to coercive birth control measures by Danish authorities.

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Denmark passes compensation bill for thousands of Inuit in Greenland forced to get IUDs

Thousands of Inuit women in Greenland are now eligible for monetary compensation over a decades-long Danish birth-control program that forcibly implanted intrauterine devices (IUDs). The compensation has some Inuit women in Canada who faced the same treatment hopeful for an apology from their own federal government.

By Liam Baker

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Denmark Enacts Compensation Bill for Forced IUD Program Targeting Inuit Women

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