Forced birth control in Greenland violated women’s rights, experts find

Truth commission to be established after two expert reports failed to agree whether scheme constituted genocide.

At least 4,000 Greenlandic women and girls, some as young as 12, received intrauterine devices or contraceptive injections between 1966 and 1991.

Forced birth control in Greenland violated women's rights but didn't constitute genocide, experts find  Reuters

From the 1960s to 1990, more than 4,000 Greenlandic women were forced to wear a contraceptive coil, in the majority of cases without their consent.

A campaign of forced contraception in Greenland that ran primarily in the 1960s and 1970s violated women’s human rights but did not meet the legal definition of genocide, two expert reports concluded on Friday.

At least 4,000 Greenlandic women and girls received contraceptive injections that were intended to reduce birth rates between 1966 and 1991.