Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Wednesday apologised in person to victims of a forced contraception programme in Denmark's autonomous territory Greenland that ran for more than three decades.

Between the late 1960s and 1992, Danish authorities aimed to reduce the Inuit birth rate by forcing around 4,500 women to wear a contraceptive coil -- or intrauterine device (IUD) -- without their consent.

Frederiksen said during a ceremony in Nuuk on Wednesday afternoon it had been a "betrayal that had major consequences for Greenlandic girls", adding: "On behalf of Denmark, I apologise."

Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen told the audience that the apology "does not mean that we accept what has happened".

Many of the women were left sterile and almost all of them have s

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