Experts Rule Greenland’s Historical Birth Control Program Violated Rights
International experts have concluded that Denmark’s mid-century forced sterilization campaign in Greenland severely violated women’s fundamental rights. However, the investigation determined that the policy did not meet the legal threshold for genocide.
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Forced birth control in Greenland violated women's rights but didn't constitute genocide, experts find - Reuters
Forced birth control in Greenland violated women's rights but didn't constitute genocide, experts find Reuters
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Truth commission to be established after two expert reports failed to agree whether scheme constituted genocide.
Read full article →Forced birth control in Greenland violated women's rights, didn't constitute genocide, experts find
At least 4,000 Greenlandic women and girls, some as young as 12, received intrauterine devices or contraceptive injections between 1966 and 1991.
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A campaign of forced contraception in Greenland that ran primarily in the 1960s and 1970s violated women’s human rights but did not meet the legal definition of genocide, two expert reports concluded on Friday. Both found administering contraception without valid consent breached the women’s right to respect for their private and family life and subjected […]
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