The program involved fitting girls as young as 12 with painful intrauterine devices without their knowledge or consent.

Denmark’s prime minister has given an emotional apology to Greenlandic Indigenous girls and women who were given invasive contraception by the Danish health authorities against their will over decades ...

Dozens of women in Greenland have heard Denmark's prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, formally apologise for a scandal that involved thousands of Inuit women being forcibly given contraceptive coils, ...

Sorry,” Frederiksen said in Danish, after Greenlandic counterpart Jens-Frederik Nielsen delivered a somber address in Greenlandic.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Wednesday apologised in person to victims of a forced contraception programme in Denmark's autonomous territory Greenland that ran for more than three ...

Naja Lyberth, who is leading a group of women who last year sought legal compensation from Denmark over the campaign, thanked Frederiksen for her apology, saying it created space for Greenlanders to ...

Some Greenlanders asked why an apology had not come decades earlier, and chalked up the timing to tensions over President Trump’s aim of annexing the island.

The prime minister of Denmark has formally apologised for a Danish health programme of forced contraception which for decades systematically implanted coils into young women in Greenland. It is ...

A special ceremony in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, was to begin at 2 pm (local time). Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Danish Prime Minister Apologizes for Forced Sterilization in Greenland Frederiksens apology follows lawsuit by 143 Inuit women over colonial-era abuses ...