Greenland’s lost generation - BBC World Service Documentaries, 100 Women

Greenland has been rocked by a scandal revealing a Danish campaign to curb its growing Inuit population from the mid 1960s to late 1970s.

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Now being officially investigated, about 4,500 women had an intrauterine device, commonly known as coil, inserted - often against their will. BBC 100 Women goes to the heart of the scandal, meeting women who’ve begun piecing together reasons behind physical and mental trauma that they’d endured for decades in silence.

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Greenland’s lost generation was directed, produced & reported by Elaine Jung
Filmed & Edited by Woody Morris
Additional Camera: Niels Borgholm
Drone: Peter Jensen
Archive: BBC, Getty Images
Translators: Sikki, Aviaja Fontain, Hanne Sørensen
Colourist & Audio Mix: Mike Ivers
Executive Producers: Claire Williams, Valeria Perasso
Commissioning Editor for 100 Women: Claire Williams
Commissioning Editor: Liz Gibbons

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