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 ...
Denmark's prime minister apologised in person on Wednesday to women who were victims of a decades-long involuntary birth control campaign, which has left islanders with deep scars and strained ...
The program involved fitting girls as young as 12 with painful intrauterine devices without their knowledge or consent.
Dozens of women in Greenland have heard Denmark's prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, formally apologise for a scandal that ...
The prime minister of Denmark has formally apologised for a Danish health programme of forced contraception which for decades ...
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.
More than 350 Greenlandic Indigenous women and girls, including some 12 years old and younger, were forcibly given ...
A young Greenlandic woman living in Denmark will regain custody of the infant girl taken from her shortly after birth. The case has become the latest flashpoint between Denmark and Greenland.
66-year-old retiree Kirstine Berthelsen prepares wool for sewing at her home in northern Copenhagen, Denmark, Sept. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/James Brooks) COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — At age 13, Katrine ...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — At age 13, Katrine Petersen was fitted with a contraceptive device by Danish doctors without her consent. She had become pregnant, and after doctors in the Greenlandic town ...