Summary
Denmark has agreed to compensate Indigenous women and girls in Greenland who were forcibly given contraception from the 1960s to 1991. These women can apply for a payout starting next April, and about 4,500 people might be eligible for compensation.
Key Facts
- Denmark will compensate Greenlandic Indigenous women and girls for forced contraception.
- The issue involves actions taken from 1960 to 1991.
- Women affected can apply for compensation of 300,000 Danish kroner each, around $46,000.
- Applications for compensation open next April and close in June 2028.
- An estimated 4,500 women may be eligible for compensation.
- The women were given intrauterine devices (IUDs) or hormonal injections without their consent.
- Greenland is a semiautonomous territory of Denmark.
- A report found more than 350 girls, some as young as 12, reported forced contraception, with many more potentially affected.
