# Experts find Greenland’s forced birth control violated women’s rights

https://mins.news/en/item/36152

- Al Jazeera, 2026-08-28 20:54 UTC
- Society
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/28/forced-birth-control-in-greenland-violated-womens-rights-experts-find?traffic_source=rss

> Greenland will establish a truth and reconciliation commission to examine a decades-long forced contraception campaign targeting Indigenous girls and women. Two expert reports disagreed on whether it amounted to genocide. Denmark has approved compensation of up to 300,000 Danish crowns for each affected woman.

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