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.

  • FarraigePlaisteach@piefed.socialAfaraf
    4·
    20 days ago

    On Monday, she also announced the creation of a “reconciliation fund” to compensate the victims, as well as other Greenlanders who suffered discrimination because of their Inuit heritage.

    Looks like it.

    • rumschlumpel@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      20 days ago

      Thanks for digging that up! I could have sworn that part wasn’t in the article when I read it earlier today.