‘Like torture, like rape’: Greenland urges Denmark to confront its dark past

Since the first victim account went public five years ago, Denmark's forced contraception scandal in Greenland has snowballed. The territory is urging its former colonial power to acknowledge the widespread trauma. "It has violated a number of human rights," says Naja Lyberth, a survivor of a campaign which, between the 1960s and 1990s, forced more than 4,500 Inuit women to wear a contraceptive coil.

Sep 13, 2024 - 18:00
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‘Like torture, like rape’: Greenland urges Denmark to confront its dark past
Since the first victim account went public five years ago, Denmark's forced contraception scandal in Greenland has snowballed. The territory is urging its former colonial power to acknowledge the widespread trauma. "It has violated a number of human rights," says Naja Lyberth, a survivor of a campaign which, between the 1960s and 1990s, forced more than 4,500 Inuit women to wear a contraceptive coil.

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