The women report that they had an IUD inserted in the 1960s and 1970s to limit birth rates. How much compensation they are asking for and how it was discovered that they had an intrauterine device.
The women never gave their consent, nor did their family.
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This Monday, 143 women born in Greenland presented a complaint against the Danish State by a discreetly organized campaign in the years 1960s and 1970s. in which They had an intrauterine device inserted without their consent.
At the end of the 1960sDenmark launched a contraceptive policy to limit birth rates in the Arctic territory that, although it was no longer a colony since 1953, was still under its tutelage.
The complaint of Greenlandic women
“The complaint was filed this morning (Monday). “My clients made the decision since they did not get any response to their request for compensation in October,” he told AFP the plaintiffs’ lawyer, Mads Pramming. “Their human rights were violatedthey themselves are the proof,” he added.
A podcast series based on the national archives and broadcast in 2022 by Danish radio and television DR revealed the magnitude of this campaign at the same time as Denmark and Greenland, which acquired the status of autonomous territory in 2009Or, explore your relationship past.
Compensation for women for forced contraception
In October, 67 women submitted a claim for compensation worth 300,000 crowns ($43,700) each. “Since then more women have spoken. The oldest is 85 years old,” Pramming explained.
In the years 1960s and 1970sThey were placed intrauterine devices (IUD) at about 4,500 young Inuit people without their consent or that of their families. Many of them were unaware that they were carrying a contraceptive device and, until recently, Greenlandic gynecologists found IUDs in women who were not aware of having them.
The investigation for compensation of women for forced contraception
A commission of inquiry into Danish policy towards Greenland, created last year, it plans publish its conclusions in 2025. “This commission and its results are not significant in terms of their cases. It will not rule if their rights were violated, but justice will be able to rule,” the lawyer added.
In 2022, six Inuit received an apology and compensation, more than 70 years after they were separated from their families to participate in an experiment aimed at creating a Danish-speaking elite on the vast Arctic island.
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