Greenland women ask Denmark for compensation over involuntary birth control

FILE PHOTO: Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen delivers a face-to-face apology to six living victims of a 1950s social experiment in which 22 Greenlandic children were taken from their families and sent to Denmark to be integrated into Danish society, at the National Museum, in Copenhagen, Denmark, March 9, 2022. Liselotte Sabroe/Ritzau Scanpix/via REUTERS/File Photo

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A group of women in Greenland are seeking compensation from Denmark over an involuntary birth control campaign launched in the 1960s, their lawyer said on Monday.

With an official investigation by the governments of Greenland and its former colonial ruler Denmark not due to report until May 2025, the group are seeking compensation now, given some of the women are in their 70s and 80s.