Overview

• Mette Frederiksen delivered a personal apology at a ceremony in Nuuk, calling it a milestone in addressing a decades-long policy that harmed thousands of Inuit women.
• The government has outlined a reconciliation fund to compensate affected women and other Inuit who faced discrimination, with size and distribution yet to be set.
• From 1960 to 1992, authorities inserted IUDs in about 4,500 Greenlandic women to curb births, leaving many with infertility, chronic pain, depression and other lasting harm.
• Roughly 150 plaintiffs have sued the Danish state over the program, and those legal cases remain pending alongside ongoing investigations.
• Public scrutiny surged after a 2022 DR podcast by survivor Naja Lyberth, and some commentators have questioned the timing of the apology, citing geopolitical pressures involving Greenland.