Naja Lyberth, psychologist and survivor of the Danish IUD campaign used against Greenland's women, in front of a painting featuring an uterus and an intrauterine device (IUD), in Nuuk, Greenland. For nearly two years, Greenland has been examining one of the darkest chapters in its history with Denmark: Copenhagen’s campaign of forced contraception targeting Inuit women.
Copenhagen, Denmark - A Greenlandic commission is to present a highly anticipated report Friday to determine whether Denmark's forced contraception of thousands of the Arctic island's indigenous Inuit constituted a genocide.
The forced contraception campaign between the 1960s and 1990 is one of the darkest chapters in Greenland's history with its former colonial master, Denmark.
Once the conclusions are presented, Greenland's government will decide how to move forward.
"For us, it's about trying to understand our history," Naaja Nathanielsen, a member of parliament representing Greenland in Denmark's parliament, told AFP.
