Hermine Hayes-Klein is a human-rights lawyer, law professor, and founder 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.

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.