Greenlandic woman wins case against Danish authorities who confiscated her child

A Greenlandic woman whose newborn baby was forcibly removed by Danish authorities as a result of controversial parenting competency tests has won a landmark case in the high court ruling that their actions were illegal. Keira Alexandra Kronvold’s daughter Zammi was taken away from her when she was two hours old and placed in foster care in November 2024 after Kronvold was subjected to so-called FKU (parental competence) psychometric tests. At the time she was told that the test was to see if she was “civilised enough”. The Danish government abruptly banned the tests on people with Greenlandic backgrounds last May after years of criticism, and amid international pressure after Donald Trump’s threats to the former Danish colony, which remains part of the Danish kingdom. But despite the law change, dozens of Greenlandic parents living in Denmark , including Kronvold, remain separated from their children having undergone the tests. In Friday’s ruling, the western high court found that the removal of Zammi, now 18 months old and living with a Danish foster family, was illegal and in breach of Kronvold’s fundamental legal rights according to the International Labour Organization (ILO) Indigenous and tribal people’s convention of 1989. It also ruled that the tests used to inform the decision were outdated. Kronvold’s lawyer, Gert Dyrn, said the ruling had “great significance”. …