"Mette Frederiksen said on Monday she would discuss a planned reconciliation fund when she visited Greenland on Wednesday for an event to mark Denmark's official apology for the IUD (intrauterine device) scandal. A statement released by her office said the government wanted to establish a reconciliation fund that can provide individual financial compensation to Greenlandic women in the IUD case and to other Greenlanders who have been subjected to failure and systematic discrimination because they are Greenlanders."
"The IUD scandal and the parenting competence tests have shone a spotlight in recent years on Denmark's current and historical treatment of Greenland, which remains part of the Danish commonwealth after ceasing to be a colony in 1953. It is believed that 4,500 women and girls, some of them as young as 12 at the time, were fitted with IUDs without their knowledge or consent between 1966 and 1970 by Danish doctors, in an apparent attempt to reduce the population of Greenland."
Denmark intends to pay reparations to Greenlandic women who were fitted with IUDs without their knowledge or consent and to other Greenlanders subjected to systematic discrimination. The government plans to establish a reconciliation fund to provide individual financial compensation to victims of the IUD case and others discriminated against for being Greenlanders. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen will discuss the fund during a visit to Greenland to mark an official apology for the IUD scandal. The national appeals board reversed a decision to separate a Greenlandic mother from her newborn daughter. An estimated 4,500 women and girls were fitted with IUDs between 1966 and 1970; some were as young as 12, and critics say the insertions appeared intended to reduce Greenland's population.
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