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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]
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 ...
[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]
A group of women in Greenland are seeking compensation from Denmark over an involuntary birth control campaign launched in the 1960s, their lawyer said on Monday. With an official investigation by ...
A group of Indigenous women in Greenland has sued Denmark for forcing them to be fitted with intrauterine contraceptive devices in the 1960s and 1970s and demanded total compensation of nearly 43 ...
The film deals with the Little Danes experiment, a 1950s social experiment and the problem of cultural genocide in Greenland. In 1951 the Danish colonial authorities removed 22 Greenlandic Inuit children (9 girls and 13 boys), with dubious consent from their parents or guardians, from their homes, relocating them to Denmark for adoption and education. [3]
Greenland, which is part of the Danish realm, was a colony under Denmark's crown until 1953, when it became a province in the Scandinavian country. In 1979, the island was granted home rule, and 30 years later, Greenland became a self-governing entity. But Denmark retains control over its foreign and defense affairs.
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]