Thousands of women in Greenland, including some as young as 12, had a contraceptive device implanted in their womb – often without consent – as part of a Danish campaign to control Greenland’s growing Inuit population in the 60s and 70s.

The Danish government has announced an independent investigation into this so-called “Coil Campaign”.

But the BBC has gathered accounts from women about recent involuntary contraception, amid growing calls for the investigation to go further.

When Bebiane was 21 years old, she went to have a coil fitted – only to hear the shocking news that there was already one inside her.

“I remember the tears rolling down my cheeks, and I told them that I couldn’t understand how I already had a coil in me… How could I not remember when I had it put in?”

Bebiane believes the only time the coil could have been inserted without her knowing was when she had an abortion at the age of 16, in the early 2000’s.

For the next four years she suffered from crippling spells of abdominal pain so severe that they left her unable to climb stairs.