COPENHAGEN: 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.

Many of the women were only teenagers when they received coils or IUDs under a program discretely organized by Denmark that aimed to limit birth rates in the Arctic territory.

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