Uncovering an Iceberg — The IUD Campaign in Greenland and The Forces of Danish Colonialism 2023 Directed by Clara Sika Helbo
Between 1966 and 1976, thousands of Greenlandic girls and women were subjected to IUD insertion without their informed consent. These procedures were carried out under the guise of routine medical school examinations and were part of a secret population control programme orchestrated by the Danish authorities. This short investigative film reveals the overall mechanisms of a system that used contraception as a weapon against minority women.
