Forced birth control in Greenland violated women’s rights but didn’t constitute genocide, experts find

Reuters: In their report, Dalee Sambo Dorough, a lawyer from Alaska and former chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, and Miriam Cullen, a law professor at the University of Copenhagen, found a reasonable basis to believe that Kalaallit Inuit (Greenlandic) women had ​suffered involuntary contraceptive practices that violated their rights to equality and non-discrimination, to non-interference in private and family life and the right to freedom from cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.

They did not, however, conclude that genocide had taken place. There was also a reasonable basis to believe that “limiting population growth” was ‌one factor behind ⁠how doctors approached contraception, they said…

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