Overview

• Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Denmark takes responsibility and offered a formal apology to Greenlandic women subjected to involuntary birth control.
• Records show thousands of females, some as young as 13, were fitted with IUDs without consent, with estimates of up to about 4,500 cases spanning the 1960s through 1991.
• Nearly 150 Inuit women sued Denmark last year, alleging human-rights violations tied to non-consensual IUD insertions.
• The Danish government has not paid compensation pending the probe, while Greenland’s leader said his government has decided to move toward compensating victims.
• On the same day, Denmark summoned the top U.S. diplomat in Copenhagen over reports of covert U.S. influence activities in Greenland.