Reckoning with Denmark’s Cruel Birth Control Campaign
For nearly a decade, the Danish government sought to control Greenland’s population by implanting IUD devices in Inuit girls, often without their consent.
JANUARY 9, 2024
Between 1966 and 1970, nearly 4,500 Inuit women, many of them teenagers, had IUDs inserted without their knowledge or consent. This campaign was carried out by Danish to limit Greenland's population growth and thus limit Danish subsidies. An official inquiry is underway to shed light on this period.
This is a translation of the photo essay originally published in French in Mediapart in February 2023.