Greenland Can't Settle Genocide Question as Expert Panel Splits Over Danish Forced Contraception

Greenland Can't Settle Genocide Question as Expert Panel Splits Over Danish Forced Contraception

Greenland's government won't decide whether Denmark's forced contraception of Inuit women amounted to genocide, after a four-member expert panel produced rival reports. Between 1966 and 1970, Danish doctors fitted 4,500 women and girls — some as young as 13 — with IUDs without consent. Denmark has apologised and passed compensation. A reconciliation commission will now address the dispute.

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