Women who underwent the procedure can receive awards at three levels: €50,000, €100,000 and €150,000.

Patient Focus, which provides support to up to 200 women who underwent symphysiotomies, has welcomed assurances from Health Minister Leo Varadkar that the Government will start paying redress by the end of the year.

An important aspect of the current debate on direct provision which is being overlooked is the practice of placing suspected victims of sex trafficking in centres which are not safe or secure.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald spoke this week before the United Nations Human Rights Committee in Geneva about the "dreadful situation of the survivors of symphysiotomy".

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald spoke this week before the United Nations Human Rights Committee in Geneva about the "dreadful situation of the survivors of symphysiotomy".

The head of Northern Ireland’s Human Rights Commission is resigning for personal reasons, it was revealed.

Ireland appears before the United Nations Human Rights Committee in Geneva today. A report was issued yesterday on human rights conditions in this country.

THE Government is likely to face strong criticism from the United Nations human rights committee over its lack of progress on addressing concerns — first highlighted almost a decade ago — about the condition of Irish prisons as well as the state’s treatment of various groups including women, Travellers, immigrants and same-sex couples.