Symphysiotomy survivors turn to UN for justice

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 Survivors of Symphysiotomy group is lodging its case with the UN Committee Against Torture and the UN Human Rights Committee.

It is estimated that up to 300 of the estimated 1,500 Irish women who underwent symphisiotomy between the 1940s and the early 1990s are still alive.