Symphysiotomy group to meet UN watchdog

Members of the Survivors of Symphysiotomy group will tell a United Nations’ watchdog committee on Monday that their plight is a human rights abuse.

The group has rejected the Government’s redress plan because of a refusal to apologise for their suffering and insisting that they give up legal challenges to receive compensation from a €34m fund.

Symphysiotomies were carried out on an estimated 1,500 women in Irish hospitals from the 1940s to the 1980s.