Mother and human-rights lawyer Hermine Hayes-Klein is the director of Human Rights in Childbirth, a consumer-generated, grassroots organization dedicated to making human rights in childbirth a meaningful reality for women all over the world. Hayes-Klein has been a law professor at The Hague and director of the Bynkershoek Research Center for Reproductive Rights (RCRR) at the Bynkershoek Institute in The Hague. She organized the first world-wide Human Rights in Childbirth Conference, which took place in 2012 and was attended by more than 300 experts in law, medicine, midwifery, childbirth, anthropology, ethicists, philosophers, policy–and parents.