Overview

• Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen apologized on behalf of Denmark, acknowledging systemic discrimination and harm to Inuit women and girls.
• Reporting and official accounts say roughly 4,500 females were fitted with IUDs from the 1960s to 1992, some as young as 12, causing lasting physical and psychological damage.
• The Danish–Greenlandic commission investigating the program is due to publish its findings in September, and the government says general compensation will be considered afterward.
• Greenland’s Premier Jens-Frederik Nielsen also apologized for procedures that occurred after local authorities assumed control of health care in 1992.
• At least 143 women are suing the Danish state for damages, and their lawyer welcomed the apology while raising the prospect of an out-of-court resolution.