A bunch of ladies in Greenland are in search of compensation from Denmark over a compelled contraception marketing campaign that started within the Sixties, their lawyer mentioned Monday.
With a proper report by the governments of Greenland and its former colonial ruler Denmark not due till Might 2025, the group is in search of reparations now, provided that among the ladies are of their 70s and 80s.
“Why do we’d like it once we know clearly that there are violations of the legislation and human rights,” Naga Liberth, one of many ladies demanding compensation, instructed Reuters.
The scandal got here to mild when Danish broadcaster DR reported final 12 months that data confirmed that between 1966 and 1970, 4,500 intrauterine gadgets have been put in in ladies and ladies as younger as 13 years previous, with out their information or consent.
The Danish and Greenlandic governments commissioned a crew of researchers to uncover the caseload and decision-making course of that led to the crackdown within the years between 1960 and 1991, when Greenland gained energy over its personal healthcare system.
The ladies’s lawyer, Mads Bramming, instructed Reuters that the ladies are demanding 300,000 Danish kroner ($42,380) every.
The declare was despatched to Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s workplace on behalf of the ladies on Monday. The Prime Minister’s Workplace didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Greenland was a Danish colony till 1953, however is now a semi-sovereign territory of Denmark, with a inhabitants of simply 57,000.