Overview

• More than 350 Indigenous women and girls, some as young as 12, were identified as victims in an independent investigation released Tuesday.
• The report details 488 instances from 1960 to 1991 in which IUDs were inserted or hormonal injections were given without informed consent.
• Victims described traumatic experiences and lasting physical effects, including pain, bleeding and infections, according to the investigation.
• Denmark and Greenland issued formal apologies last month, and nearly 150 Inuit women have sued Denmark and filed compensation claims against its health ministry.
• The documented tally contrasts with earlier Danish estimates of up to 4,500 IUD insertions in the 1960s to mid-1970s, and Greenland assumed control of its health care system in 1992.