Confronting a Dark Legacy: Greenland's Forced Contraction Scheme The decision by Greenland's government to establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission over the forced contraception scheme carried out by Danish authorities from the 1960s to 1990 has sparked a long overdue conversation about the dark chapters in Greenland's history.
Thousands of Indigenous women and girls were forcibly fitted with intrauterine devices or contraceptive injections without their consent, leaving behind a legacy of trauma that still lingers today.
The commission's establishment comes after experts failed to agree on whether the practice constituted genocide.