COPENHAGEN - Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has arrived in Denmark’s autonomous territory Greenland for a ceremony Wednesday to apologise in person to the victims of a forced contraception programme that Copenhagen ran for more than three decades.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/52200240

From the late 1960s until 1992, Danish authorities forced around 4,500 Inuit women, around half of all those of child-bearing age, to wear a contraceptive coil — or intrauterine device (IUD) — without their consent.

  • GojuRyu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    17 days ago

    Agreed, but funny coming from a ca instance with the Canadian indigenous boarding schools famously continuing into the 90s as well.

    It’s about time that we (Danes) take responsibility for the incident, not only by apologizing, but also by giving reparations.