Forced birth control in Greenland violated women's rights, didn't constitute genocide, experts find

Two expert reports concluded on Friday that a campaign of forced contraception in Greenland, primarily from the 1960s to 1970s, violated women's human rights but did not constitute genocide. The practice, which involved administering contraception without valid consent to at least 4,000 Greenlandic women and girls, breached their right to private and family life and, in some cases, subjected them to degrading treatment. While one report found Denmark may have breached the Genocide Convention by failing to act on serious risks, neither report established genocidal intent based solely on contraceptive practices. Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen announced the establishment of a reconciliation commission, and Denmark passed a law to compensate affected women 300,000 Danish crowns ($46,758) each. As one affected woman, Inger Platou, 70, stated, "It turns out we were treated like animals."