Today on RÚV English Radio, an interview recorded for RÚV's foreign coverage.
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Recently, on Danish national radio, Greenlandic women publicly told their stories of how the contraceptive IUD was placed in them without their consent or knowledge. The women did not find this out until later in life when they went to a gynecologist.
The Human Rights Council of Greenland is looking at the cases. Qivioq Løvstrøm, its chair, says that for a long time there was not much discussion about these issues in Greenland. However, women started to ask on social media if others had experienced this happening to them. This is how the women found out that there were many of them, and that this was done to them in a systematic way.
RÚV's Dagný Hulda Erlendsdóttir spoke to Qivioq Løvstrøm about the scandal.
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