# Greenland to open truth commission into forced contraception scheme targeting Inuit women

https://mins.news/en/item/36824

- euronews, 2026-08-28 17:36 UTC
- Society
- Original: http://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/28/greenland-to-open-truth-commission-over-forced-contraception-of-inuit-women-scheme

> Greenland will establish a truth commission to examine a forced contraception scheme targeting Inuit women. From the 1960s to 1990, more than 4,000 Greenlandic women were made to wear contraceptive coils, mostly without their consent.

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