Danish PM to apologise to victims of Greenland forced contraception | International

COPENHAGEN, Sept 24, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen will visit Denmark's autonomous territory Greenland on Wednesday to apologise in person to the victims of a forced contraception programme that Copenhagen ran for more than three decades. "It will be a very important moment for these women, obviously but also for society as a whole," Aaja Chemnitz, an MP who represents Greenland in the Danish parliament, told AFP. "It's a second step in the reconciliation process after first announcing the apology" in late August, she said. A special ceremony in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, was to begin at 2:00 pm (1500 GMT). From the late 1960s until 1992, Danish authorities forced around 4,500 Inuit women, around half...