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The 'Spiral Campaign': Denmark’s forced contraception case of Inuit women | Explained

Source: The Hindu
Category: Technology
Region: USA
Published: October 18, 2026 at 18:56

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Thousands of Greenlandic Inuit women and girls were fitted with IUDs without their consent between the 1960s and 1990s, in a birth-control programme reportedly aimed at controlling the island’s population; decades later, Denmark has apologised and approved compensation for the historic wrong, while questions of accountability, colonialism and human rights violations remain unresolved

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