Martin Breum

Are human rights sufficiently pursued and implemented in the health sector in Greenland? Is Greenlandic culture, language and worldviews taken into sufficent account? How is responsibily for human rights in Greenland divided between Greenland and Denmark? And how should we regard the socalled contraceptive case, where almost half of the women in Greenland in the 1960s and early 1970s had an IUD (spiral) inserted into their uterus? Did this campaign perhaps amount to actual genocide, as Greenland’s former premier Mute B. Egede claimed on Danish tv in late 2024? Miriam Cullen from New Zealand is an international human rights expert and a researcher at the University of Copenhagen. She is presently (June 2025) engaged in a first-of-its kind human rights centered survey of the Greenlandic health sector and vicechair of an expert inquiry into the human rights aspects of the contraceptives case.  In late May 2025 I interviewed Miriam Cullen on a small stage in the magnificient old library at University of Copenhagen. The full fifty minutes are available here on Youtube (the intro is in Danish, the rest in English:)