In 2025, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) and Greenland's Head of Government, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, apologized in the IUD case on behalf of Denmark and Greenland. (Archive photo). Photo: Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix
First women receive compensation in IUD case
The first four Greenlandic women have been awarded compensation in connection with the IUD case, receiving 300,000 kroner each.
The case concerns Greenlandic girls and women who had an IUD fitted without their knowledge and consent by the Danish state from 1960 to 1991, a practice that...
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