Two reports commissioned by the Greenlandic government to investigate the forcible contraception of Indigenous women and girls by Danish health authorities have reached divergent conclusions regarding whether the practice constituted genocide. The Greenlandic government, which tasked the authors with using the United Nations’ 1948 genocide convention definition—encompassing “imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group”—did not publicly state its own determination on the matter when questioned by journalists (AP, 2026).

The reports detail that over 4,000 Greenlandic women and girls, including those as young as 12, were administered intrauterine devices (IUDs) or hormonal birth control injections between the 1960s and early 1990s, ostensibly to curb population growth amid improving living conditions and healthcare. While one report concluded that there was no genocide, asserting a lack of empirical evidence for intent to destroy the Greenlandic population, the other report, accepted by the Greenlandic government, refrained from making a definitive genocide determination, suggesting the need for further study that includes other contemporaneous Danish policies affecting Greenlandic families (AP, 2026).

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