LibGuides: WGST 2050: Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies: Greenland: Spiralkampagnen/Spiral Case

Greenland: Spiralkampagnen/Spiral Case

The spiralkampagnen or spiral case focuses on Greenlandic Inuit girls and women who were fitted with IUDs under the direction of the Danish Government during the 1960s and 1970s.

Speaking Up For Women in Greenland Spiral-Case: “We Were Frozen in Our Bodies For Decades”
A 2024 news report from the United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe site.
Spiralkampagnen: Forced Contraception and Unintended Sterilisation of Greenlandic Women
A 2024 feature from the World Photography Organisation's Photographer of the Year, Juliette Pavy.
Greenland’s "Coil Campaign": Photographer Juliette Pavy Exposes the Forced Contraception of Thousands of Inuit Women and Girls
A 2025 news report from Lacuna Magazine featuring an interview with Juliette Pavy.
Spiralkampagnen: How Denmark Used Women’s Bodies to Regulate the Population in Greenland
A 2022 research report by Tanguy Sandré, a researcher in Social and Transdisciplinary Sciences who is affiliated to the CEARC Research Center, at the UVSQ-University Paris-Saclay (France).
Greenland Women Seek Compensation Over Involuntary Birth Control
A 2023 news report from the BBC.
Denmark Apologises to Greenland's Forced Contraception Victims
A 2025 news report from the BBC.
"I Was Only a Child": Greenlandic Women Tell of Trauma of Forced Contraception
A 2024 news report from The Guardian.
They Were Given IUDs as Children Without Their Consent. Now, They Want Compensation.
A 2023 news report from the New York Times.