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

The World's Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Victoria Pihl Sørensen, a Danish historian who has studied Denmark's IUD program ...

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 ...

Dozens of women in Greenland have heard Denmark's prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, formally apologise for a scandal that ...

Danish and Greenlandic leaders will apologise Wednesday for decades of forced contraception of Indigenous women in Greenland, including the forced insertion of IUDs, a policy that traumatised ...

At a ceremony in Greenland 's capital of Nuuk on Wednesday, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, her voice cracking, apologized to Greenlandic Indigenous girls and women like Petersen who were ...

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. By Jeffrey Gettleman and Maya Tekeli ...

Brazilian navigator Tamara Klink told AFP she encountered "very little" sea ice on her solo sail through the Northwest ...

Last month, Denmark and Greenland already published apologies for their roles in the mistreatment of the women and girls just ahead of the publication of an independent investigation into the abuse.

While sailing along Greenland’s southern coast, the crew struck an unseen fishing net drifting below the surface — a routine ...

In Greenland, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen will apologize formally for the mistreatment of thousands of Inuit girls and women who were given invasive contraception without consent. In a ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — 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 of ...