A/HRC/54/31/Add.1 responses; information received by the Special Rapporteur from several sources indicates that biases against Inuit parents have resulted in their being wrongly assessed as having cognitive disabilities. Furthermore, as non-Danish native speakers, Inuit parents are disadvantaged in the current assessment procedures. 21. Prejudices about Inuit Greenlanders have also resulted in social workers entering unconfirmed assumptions about abuse and violence in case files. Legislation in Denmark regarding the placement of children in out-of-home care has not been translated and made available in Greenlandic, meaning that many parents are not informed about the procedures and their rights. Inuit parents spoke to the Special Rapporteur about feeling coerced into signing voluntary agreements to hand over their children to foster care, being denied interpretation services and their case files being withheld from them. The majority of the Inuit children removed are placed in Danish families, which often results in children from Greenland permanently losing their language, culture, identity and family ties, and makes it next to impossible for them to return to Greenland. 22. It is well documented internationally that the separation of Indigenous children from their parents perpetuates intergenerational trauma. The Special Rapporteur underlines that irrespective of whether Inuit children are in Greenland or Denmark, they retain their rights as Indigenous Peoples set out in international human rights standards, notably the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169), and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and consequently should be ensured support to retain their culture, language and identity. The Committee on the Rights of the Child has underlined that, when State authorities, including legislative bodies, seek to assess the best interests of Indigenous children, they should consider the cultural rights of the Indigenous children and their need to exercise such rights collectively with members of their group. Such consultations should, to the extent possible, include meaningful participation of Indigenous children.5 23. Regarding tertiary education, information received indicates that the dropout rate for Inuit students was 26 per cent compared with 16 per cent for ethnic Danish students in 2019. Inuit students who come to study in Denmark face specific challenges, such as navigating the procedures and methods of the Danish educational system and teaching entirely in Danish, which is often not the mother tongue of Inuit students. 24. In terms of access to information, at the time of the visit, there were no public radio or television services to provide news in Greenlandic for Inuit in Denmark. However, the Special Rapporteur was informed that funds from the Government of Denmark had been allocated for that purpose. A biweekly podcast in Greenlandic for Inuit in Denmark started operating in late February 2023, 6 and the Special Rapporteur notes this as positive. The Special Rapporteur learned about current efforts by Danish authorities to include knowledge about the culture and history of Greenland in the general school curricula for all children in Denmark. The Special Rapporteur welcomes this is a key measure to counter prejudices and create a more inclusive and diverse society, and recommends that the review of the school curricula be concluded and implemented as a priority. B. Impact of colonization on Inuit people in Greenland and reconciliation measures 25. The Special Rapporteur observes that, after the formal end of the colonial era in 1953, several Danish policies caused adverse colonial effects in Greenland. By trying to limit the population growth of Greenland and imposing Danish culture, language and social and legal structures and through forced urbanization and discrimination, those policies have threatened Inuit culture, identity and institutions and their presence in Greenland. 26. The Special Rapporteur was particularly moved by listening to the testimonies of the victims of the so-called coil campaign. According to information received, starting in the 1960s, the Government of Denmark allegedly carried out a campaign to control the 5 6 GE.23-13414 Committee on the Rights of the Child, general comment No. 11 (2009), para. 31. See https://dk.inuna.dk/en. 5