A long-awaited Government report into “barbaric” operations on thousands of pregnant women between the 1940s and 1984 will recommend at least €34m in State payouts to victims when it is published today.

Survivors of symphysiotomy are appealing to the Minister for Health to stop the planned destruction of data relating to their cases.

In an online petition called “Halt Judge Harding Clarke's proposal to shred Symphysiotomy records after March 20th 2016”, the Survivors of Symphysiotomy organisation urge the Taoiseach and Minister for Health to stop the proposal to shred medical records.

The Government is being asked to review its Symphysiotomy scheme.

A High Court judge has rejected a claim by a 76-year old woman that an unnecessary symphysiotomy was performed on her 12 days before the birth of her first baby at a Dublin hospital in 1963.

Campaigners are calling for a Government inquiry into symphysiotomy, after a 76-year-old woman lost a High Court damages action for injuries she allegedly suffered in a Dublin hospital over 50 years ago.

A 76-year-old woman has lost a High Court damages action arising from a symphysiotomy procedure at a Dublin hospital more than 50 years ago.

Thousands of previously unknown hospital files relating to patients who underwent “barbaric” symphysiotomies have been uncovered in private “off-site” locations across the country.

A challenge to a new redress scheme, for survivors of a controversial surgical procedure on women, is unlikely to proceed following clarification on the rights of those who may no longer have the mental capacity to apply for it, the High Court heard.

Survivors of Symphysiotomy (SOS) have voted overwhelmingly to reject the Government's €34m redress scheme.

Victims of a surgery inflicted on 1,500 women giving birth from the 1940s to 1980s have voted to reject a State compensation plan and instead take legal action as the Government deal does not admit "wrongdoing".

AFTER the Nazi medical experiments on human beings, the Nuremberg code was drawn up to prevent such barbarity happening again. At its core was that anybody being subjected to medical experiments must give their consent.

Irish abortion law treats women as a vessel and nothing more, the UN’s human rights committee chair and former UN special rapporteur on torture told the Government.

Rosemary, a survivor of symphysiotomy, gives a harrowing account to Ann Cahill of the night, more than 40 years ago, when her pelvis was broken by a doctor in a crowded hospital theatre

The practice of breaking a woman’s pelvis during childbirth and preventing it from healing could well be considered a crime, the chair of the UN Human Rights committee has said.

The UN Human Rights Committee has expressed concern at the treatment of the survivors of symphsiotomy.

Members of the Survivors of Symphysiotomy group have rejected the Government’s redress plan.

Survivors of symphysiotomy yesterday roundly rejected the Government’s offer of a €34m redress scheme as a blatant attempt to whitewash the wrongs done to them. They feel that the scheme does not amount to a proper apology.

It is astonishing that long after caesarean section replaced the mediaeval practice of symphysiotomy, up to 1984 women were still having their pelvis broken during childbirth at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda.

The Survivors of Symphysiotomy are calling for a negotiated settlement of their legal actions for the "inhuman" procedure they underwent without consent.

Women whose pelvises were sawed in half to facilitate childbirth are to bring their fight for justice to the UN as they accuse the Government of refusing to admit they were wronged.

The sheer agony of the pain suffered by 1,500 Irish women who were subjected to a symphysiotomy in hospitals between 1944 and 1992 never dulls with each retelling of a personal story, they say.