Good news for Iceland!
Denmark Under Pressure Over Its Decades-Long Forced Contraception of Greenlandic Women – Reports Investigate Whether this Constitutes Genocide
Around half of fertile women in the Arctic Island were fitted with IUDs or given hormone birth control shots.
Around half of fertile women in the Arctic Island were fitted with IUDs or given hormone birth control shots.
From the 1960’s and into the early 1990’s, Denmark imposed an inhuman sterilization program on Greenlandic Inuit women, with the purpose of limiting population growth in the self-governing territory.
At least 4,000 Greenlandic women and girls, some as young as 12, received intrauterine devices or contraceptive injections between 1966 and 1991, often without their consent or knowledge.
Now, against the background of Donald J. Trump’s decision to control the island, the Danish are under fire for their mistreatment of the indigenous populations.
Two separate reports investigating the forcible contraception of thousands of Indigenous women and girls are divided over a core question: does it constitute genocide?