Nuuk (AFP) – Denmark has apologised to the victims of a forced contraception programme that ran in Greenland for more than three decades. Between the late 1960s and 1992, around 4,500 women forcibly received contraceptive devices in an effort by Danish authorities to reduce the birth rate of the autonomous territory’s Inuit population. “It’s indeed a special day,” says Tida Jette Ravn, for whom the apology, delivered in Nuuk by Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, marks “a day of grief.”
