{"id":2116714,"date":"2026-08-28T17:36:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T14:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2116714"},"modified":"2026-08-28T17:36:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T14:36:49","slug":"greenland-to-open-truth-commission-over-forced-contraception-of-inuit-women-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2116714","title":{"rendered":"Greenland to open truth commission over forced contraception of Inuit women scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/89\/33\/41\/1200x675_cmsv2_060f8b5f-250b-5441-aaeb-175652b2d279-9893341.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article id=\"abe-2921342-pos1-c-latest-stories\" class=\"the-media-object m-modeMobile-1 m-modeDesktop-1 m-modeXL-1\" data-nid=\"2921342\" data-cid=\"9893355\" data-part-label=\"Partner content\">\n<figure id=\"abe-2921342-label-pos1-c-latest-stories\" 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Top News Stories Today<\/p>\n<div class=\"the-media-object__title  \">\n<p>    Latest news bulletin | August 28th, 2026 \u2013 Evening\n  <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"helper-site-row o-article-newsy\">\n<div class=\"helper-site-container o-article-newsy__container\">\n<div class=\"o-article-newsy__main\">\n<header class=\"h-grid o-article-newsy__main__header\">\n<nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumbs\" class=\"c-article-breadcrumbs\">\n<div id=\"adb-article-breadcrumb\" class=\"c-article-breadcrumbs__list\">\n<p>                          Europe<\/p>\n<p>                          Europe News<\/p><\/div>\n<\/nav>\n<h1 class=\"c-article-redesign-title\">\n                            Greenland to open truth commission over forced contraception of Inuit women scheme<\/h1>\n<div class=\"c-article-image-video u-position-relative \">\n<div class=\"js-superdiv u-aspect-ratio-16x9 u-position-relative \" data-controller=\"video-player\" data-sponsored=\"Partner content\"><img 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their consent.<br \/>\n    <\/h2>\n<div class=\"c-article-content js-article-content\">\n<p>Greenland said on Friday it would establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Denmark&#8217;s forced contraception of thousands of indigenous Inuits, after experts failed to agree on whether the scheme constituted &#8220;genocide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"c-ad u-show-for-mobile-only\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt loading=\"lazy\"><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-ad u-show-for-desktop\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt loading=\"lazy\"><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The forced contraception campaign is one of the darkest chapters in Greenland&#8217;s history with its former colonial master Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>From the 1960s to 1990, more than 4,000 Greenlandic women were forced to wear a contraceptive coil, or intrauterine device (IUD), in the vast majority of cases without their consent or that of their parents if they were minors.<\/p>\n<p>Girls as young as 12 were affected, some of whom were never able to have children afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We cannot say, on behalf of the government, whether there was genocide. This is something we can continue to debate,&#8221; Greenland&#8217;s Justice Minister Marianne Paviasen told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Greenland&#8217;s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said the priority now was to &#8220;begin the healing process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n<div class=\"widget__contents\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/89\/33\/41\/808x539_cmsv2_ad192362-b291-528a-9102-11f90294c793-9893341.jpg\" alt=\"Greenland&apos;s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen and Denmark&apos;s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in Marienborg, 27 April, 2025\"><figcaption class=\"widget__caption\"><span class=\"widget__captionWrap\"><span class=\"widget__captionText\">Greenland&#8217;s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen and Denmark&#8217;s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in Marienborg, 27 April, 2025<\/span><span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We will set up a reconciliation commission,&#8221; he vowed, saying he wanted to cooperate with Denmark on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>In Copenhagen, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen also sounded a conciliatory note.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will handle the political process together with the government of Greenland. The most important thing for me is that we find the right path together,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>A four-member commission was tasked in August 2024 with shedding light on the scheme.<\/p>\n<p>The experts were unable to agree on a unanimous conclusion, presenting two different reports instead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One states there was no genocide at all, while the other says there might have been,&#8221; Paviasen said.<\/p>\n<p>The reports did however agree that the contraception programme may have violated multiple human rights and the rights of Indigenous peoples.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n<div class=\"widget__contents\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/89\/33\/41\/808x539_cmsv2_45933692-dac8-571a-9a2f-96e6c56b6efc-9893341.jpg\" alt=\"Meeting in the Parliament Hall at Folketing Hall at Christiansborg in Copenhagen, 27 August, 2026\"><figcaption class=\"widget__caption\"><span class=\"widget__captionWrap\"><span class=\"widget__captionText\">Meeting in the Parliament Hall at Folketing Hall at Christiansborg in Copenhagen, 27 August, 2026<\/span><span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2><strong>&#8216;Not just about history&#8217;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>One of the victims, Henriette Berthelsen, told the AFP news agency before the reports were presented that the conclusions were skewed from the start since no Greenlandic Inuit was appointed as experts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For me, this is not just about history or politics. It&#8217;s my body, my life and my right to self-determination,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And once again, I see that it is others who will investigate and define what was done to me and to other Inuit women.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the Danish parliament agreed that women affected by the forced contraception campaign can claim compensation from Copenhagen, an initiative pushed by Frederiksen, who presented Denmark&#8217;s official apology last year.<\/p>\n<p>Media coverage of the case has revived trauma that had been buried for decades.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6405\">\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n<div class=\"widget__contents\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/66\/09\/19\/808x518_cmsv2_cbdf1bdc-2db9-5e1f-b140-bd3a01e14387-9660919.jpg\" alt=\"A person skis in Nuuk, 6 February, 2026\"><figcaption class=\"widget__caption\"><span class=\"widget__captionWrap\"><span class=\"widget__captionText\">A person skis in Nuuk, 6 February, 2026<\/span><span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I realised everything it had cost me, all those hospitalisations, those surgeries, the schooling I missed and, above all, those pains I had never associated with that damn IUD,&#8221; said Kirstine Najarak Berthelsen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was buried so deeply in my subconscious&#8230;Everything that happened to people is beyond imagination if you haven&#8217;t experienced it yourself,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>By the late 1970s, one in two Greenlandic women of childbearing age, at least 4,070 women, had been fitted with an IUD, according to an investigation presented in September 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The scandal came to light when one of the victims spoke out in the media about the trauma she experienced.<\/p>\n<p>A podcast series in 2022 then revealed the full extent of the campaign.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id data-event=\"widget_related\">\n<div class=\"c-widget-related__title\"><b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b><\/div>\n<ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n<li class=\"c-widget-related__item\">Denmark to pay \u20ac40,000 each to Greenlandic women and girls who were forcibly given contraception<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-widget-related__item\">Denmark apologises for painful legacy of forced birth control in Greenland<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Henriette Berthelsen has long called for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to be established.<\/p>\n<p>The 68-year-old psychologist said that would make it possible to &#8220;acknowledge what 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the scheme constituted &#8220;genocide.&#8221;The forced contraception campaign is one of the darkest chapters in Greenland&#8217;s history with its former colonial master Denmark.From the 1960s to 1990, more than 4,000 Greenlandic women were forced to wear a contraceptive coil, or intrauterine device (IUD), in the vast majority of cases without their consent or that of their parents if they were minors.Girls as young as 12 were affected, some of whom were never able to have children afterwards.&#8221;We cannot say, on behalf of the government, whether there was genocide. This is something we can continue to debate,&#8221; Greenland&#8217;s Justice Minister Marianne Paviasen told reporters.Greenland&#8217;s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said the priority now was to &#8220;begin the healing process.&#8221;&#8221;We will set up a reconciliation commission,&#8221; he vowed, saying he wanted to cooperate with Denmark on the matter.In Copenhagen, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen also sounded a conciliatory note.&#8221;We will handle the political process together with the government of Greenland. The most important thing for me is that we find the right path together,&#8221; she said.A four-member commission was tasked in August 2024 with shedding light on the scheme.The experts were unable to agree on a unanimous conclusion, presenting two different reports instead.&#8221;One states there was no genocide at all, while the other says there might have been,&#8221; Paviasen said.The reports did however agree that the contraception programme may have violated multiple human rights and the rights of Indigenous peoples.&#8217;Not just about history&#8217;One of the victims, Henriette Berthelsen, told the AFP news agency before the reports were presented that the conclusions were skewed from the start since no Greenlandic Inuit was appointed as experts.&#8221;For me, this is not just about history or politics. It&#8217;s my body, my life and my right to self-determination,&#8221; she said.&#8221;And once again, I see that it is others who will investigate and define what was done to me and to other Inuit women.&#8221;On Thursday, the Danish parliament agreed that women affected by the forced contraception campaign can claim compensation from Copenhagen, an initiative pushed by Frederiksen, who presented Denmark&#8217;s official apology last year.Media coverage of the case has revived trauma that had been buried for decades.&#8221;I realised everything it had cost me, all those hospitalisations, those surgeries, the schooling I missed and, above all, those pains I had never associated with that damn IUD,&#8221; said Kirstine Najarak Berthelsen.&#8221;It was buried so deeply in my subconscious&#8230;Everything that happened to people is beyond imagination if you haven&#8217;t experienced it yourself,&#8221; she added.By the late 1970s, one in two Greenlandic women of childbearing age, at least 4,070 women, had been fitted with an IUD, according to an investigation presented in September 2025.The scandal came to light when one of the victims spoke out in the media about the trauma she experienced.A podcast series in 2022 then revealed the full extent of the campaign.Henriette Berthelsen has long called for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to be established.The 68-year-old psychologist said that would make it possible to &#8220;acknowledge what happened.&#8221;&#8221;I believe that only then will we be able to begin to heal and move forward &#8211; not as adversaries, but as human beings and as peoples equal in dignity.&#8221;Nuuk and Copenhagen are also shedding light on several other painful chapters from the past, including children adopted without their parents&#8217; consent.<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/08\/28\/greenland-to-open-truth-commission-over-forced-contraception-of-inuit-women-scheme&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/89\/33\/41\/1200x675_cmsv2_060f8b5f-250b-5441-aaeb-175652b2d279-9893341.jpg&#8221;] Culture news C\u00e9line Dion concerts: Canadian star returns to Paris after six years away from the stage No Comment Fans welcome C\u00e9line Dion outside her Paris hotel as she prepares to launch a 16\u2011show arena residency Europe News Dutch centre warns about potentially lethal Trump-shaped ecstasy pills Top News Stories Today Latest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[226,36],"class_list":["post-2116714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","tag-crawlmanager","tag-euronews-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2116714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2116714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2116714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2116714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}