Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has issued a long-awaited apology to the Greenlandic women and their families affected by what she called "systematic discrimination" during a contraceptive campaign.
During the 1960s and 70s thousands of Inuit women and girls as young as 12 were fitted with contraceptive devices, as part of a birth-control programme administered by Danish doctors.
"We cannot change what has happened. But we can take responsibility," Frederiksen said of the scandal.
"On behalf of Denmark, I would like to say sorry," she said, acknowledging that victims had "experienced both physical and psychological harm".
The scale of the birth-control programme was first brought to light in 2022, by an investigative podcast called Spiralkampagnen - the coil campaign.
