COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Denmark has reached a deal to compensate thousands of Indigenous women and girls in Greenland over cases of forcible contraception carried out by health authorities over decades starting in the 1960s.

The Danish health ministry said Wednesday that women who were given contraception against their knowledge or consent between 1960 and 1991 can apply for individual payouts of 300,000 Danish kroner (about $46,000) starting next April.

An estimated 4,500 women could be entitled to compensation. Greenland is a semiautonomous territory of Denmark.

The Inuits, many of them teenagers at the time, were fitted with intrauterine contraceptive devices, known as IUDs or coils, or given a hormonal birth control injection — either without learning details or giving their consent.

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