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 thousands. At age 13, Katrine Petersen was fitted with a »»»

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, as part of a controversial birth control programme during the 1960s and 70s. "Dear women. Dear famil»»»

COPENHAGEN - 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 relations with their former colonial power. Thousands of women and girls as young as 12 were »»»

COPENHAGEN, Sept 24, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen will visit Denmark's autonomous territory Greenland on Wednesday to apologise in person to the victims of a forced contraception programme that Copenhagen ran for more than three decades. "It will be a very important mome»»»