A group of women in Greenland are seeking compensation from Denmark over an involuntary birth control campaign launched in the 1960s. The scandal came to light when a Danish broadcaster reported last year that records showed 4,500 intrauterine devices were fitted into women and girls without their knowledge or consent from 1966 to 1970.
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