Henriette Berthelsen was separated from her family at 11 and forced to wear a contraceptive coil, a trauma she buried until she and 142 other Greenlandic women sued the Danish state.
The government in Greenland says it wants to investigate possible human rights violations related to forced contraception of women by Danish doctors in the 1960s and 1970s.
More than 140 Greenlandic women sued the
Danish state Monday for forcing them to have a coil, or intrauterine device
(IUD), fitted in the 1960s and 1970s even though many were barely teens.
Indigenous hunters of the Scoresby Sound in eastern Greenland say the quiet of the hunt has been broken by new arrivals -- cruise passengers rushing to see Inuit culture before it is too late.
The thunder of icebergs crashing into the turquoise sea of eastern Greenland is the sound of one of the planet's most important ecosystems teetering on the edge of collapse.
A group of 67 women from Greenland on
Monday filed claims for compensation from the Danish government for being
fitted with intrauterine devices (IUDs) without their consent decades ago.
All passengers and staff on board a cruise ship that ran aground two days ago off northeast Greenland are doing well under the circumstances, Denmark's Arctic Command said on Wednesday.
With rugged red mountains
rising on either side, a sailboat carrying scientists deftly snakes between
icebergs brimming Greenland's Scoresby Fjord, as they rush to document this
understudied region on the frontline of climate change.
The prime minister of Greenland said on Thursday he regretted the way relations between his autonomous Arctic territory and mainland Denmark had deteriorated following Copenhagen's appointment of a new Arctic ambassador.
Greenland's lawmakers have been able for the first time to view a draft constitution which the autonomous territory could
rely on if it comes to negotiating independence from Denmark.
Tremors from the powerful earthquake that
rocked Turkey and neighbouring Syria on Monday were felt as far away as
Greenland, the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland said.
Temperatures in parts of Greenland are
warmer than they have been in 1,000 years, the co-author of a study that
reconstructed conditions by drilling deep into the ice sheet told AFP on
Friday.
Scientists in Greenland announced Wednesday
they had found DNA dating back two million years -- the oldest ever extracted
-- in sediment from the Ice Age, opening a new chapter in paleogenetics.
Denmark’s election on November 1st could conceivably be settled by four parliamentary seats allocated to representatives from Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
As tourists flock to Greenland to
take in its breathtaking icebergs and natural beauty, authorities are mulling
ways to control crowds to protect the fragile environment, already threatened
by global warming.
Thousands of young Greenland Inuit were the victim of a 1960s policy to limit the birth rate in the Arctic territory, which was no longer a colony at the time but still under Danish control.
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen apologised in person Wednesday to six Greenlandic Inuits removed from their families and taken to Copenhagen more than 70 years ago as part of an experiment to create a Danish-speaking elite.
Six people from Greenland who were forced to take part in a Danish social experiment as children in the 1950s are to be paid thousands of kroner in compensation by the Danish state.
Greenland's immense ice sheet has lost enough ice in the past 20 years to submerge the entire United States in half a metre of water, according to data released this week by Danish researchers.
Greenland's parliament voted Tuesday to ban uranium mining and exploration in the vast Danish territory, following through on a campaign promise from the ruling left-wing party which was elected earlier this year.
Greenland's seabed is being studied to see if it is home to marine diamonds, in a survey conducted on behalf of international diamond group De Beers, the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) said.
