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Prior to and during the period of the legal fatherlessness laws, Denmark was the colonial ruler of Greenland. [1] Throughout its rule, Denmark instituted a system racially segregating Danish society from Greenlandic society, including laws prohibiting miscegenation and certain kinds of relationships between Danish men and Greenlandic Inuit women. [1]
[22] 22 Greenlandic children were taken to Denmark where they spent one year with foster families in Denmark. [23] Unbeknownst to the parents in Greenland, on return the children would live in orphanages, not with their families and were only allowed infrequent visits. [23] Six of the children were adopted by their Danish host families. [23]
Between around 1966 and 1975, thousands of Greenlandic Inuit girls and women had intrauterine devices (IUDs) inserted to control their pregnancies under the direction of the Danish government and by Danish doctors. [2] Half of the 9,000 women in Greenland who could have children were given IUDs in the first five years of the program; [3] some ...
The practice of forced sterilization and the widespread use of intrauterine devices (IUDs) on Greenlandic Inuit women and girls during the 1960s and 1970s is a dark chapter in the history of Denmark and Greenland. As part of a population control policy, roughly half of all fertile Greenlandic Inuit women and girls were fitted with IUDs ...
The queen of Denmark, Ingrid, visited the camp and took pictures with the children. [11] Thiesen said she "didn't understand a thing" of the queen's visit, and that her general unease of the experiment showed through in the photo, in which "none of us is smiling". [11] The children were then placed in Danish foster families for over a year. [4]
Greenland has representative offices in several countries and otherwise is represented by embassies of Denmark worldwide. The Self-Government Act of 2009 allows the government of Greenland to open diplomatic offices, mainly within areas of full jurisdiction of Greenland, this being foreign trade, industry, fisheries, education, science, mining etc.
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Greenlandic people of Danish descent (1 C, 25 P) Pages in category "Denmark–Greenland relations" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.