Greenland’s Indigenous women deserve more than financial compensation

Indigenous women across the globe have a traumatic historical relationship with <a href="https://www.theindigenousfoundation.org/articles/forced-and-coerced-sterilization-of-indigenous-women" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">genocide</a>. Attempts to wipe-out indigenous populations have been pervasive across the West and beyond, but they appear in many forms, some more overtly insidious than others. From ‘residential schools’ to social and financial isolation, Indigenous people have and continue to face both casual and violent racism. But in Greenland, a deeply disturbing case of Indigenous ethnic cleansing has resurfaced. A group of 67 women have come <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66990670" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">forward</a> demanding compensation from the Danish government, after they claimed Danish doctors forced them to have intrauterine devices (IUDs) inserted as teenagers. <a href="https://thredmedia.medium.com/greenlands-indigenous-women-deserve-more-than-financial-compensation-134a68801df3">Learn More</a>