Ivana Bronlund is getting her baby back.
Ms. Bronlund, a young Greenlandic woman, found herself thrust into the national spotlight after the authorities in her small Danish town forced her to give up her infant daughter an hour after she was born. It was the result of a complicated parenting evaluation that officials had admitted was flawed, and her case quickly flared into another sore spot between Denmark and Greenland, which is a Danish overseas territory.
On Monday, a national appeals board reversed the decision made by local officials in the municipality outside of Copenhagen where Ms. Bronlund lives.
The decision was spare on details, citing the privacy of those involved, but the headline on a notice published Monday evening was: “The Danish National Appeals Board is reversing the decision.”
Ms. Bronlund, 18, had been fighting hard for the custody of her daughter, who was born on Aug. 11. That day, an hour after birth, the municipal authorities took the baby away and put her in foster care.
On Monday, she posted a short statement on Instagram, saying, “my heart is whole again.”
Just about any issue connected to Greenland has become a hot subject in Denmark as the Danes try to fend off insistence by President Trump that the United States take it over.
Denmark colonized Greenland, a gigantic island high up in the Arctic Sea, more than 300 years ago. Though it is no longer a colony — the Danes have granted it a large degree of autonomy — many Greenlanders still feel resentment about the colonial past and the years of discrimination that followed.
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