Bashi Hazard is an Australian lawyer and the principal of B W Law, a legal practice established to support and assist women and children, and the Legal Director of the ANZ arm of the Human Rights in Childbirth (HRiC) International Lawyers Network. Bashi’s background is in competition and consumer law, and litigation, developed while working for several years with Allens in Sydney, immediately after graduating with first class honours in Law and Economics from the University of Sydney.

She has co-authored the book Canary in the Coal Mine- birthing outside the system. This book investigates why women choose ‘birth outside the system’ and makes connections between women’s right to choose where they birth and violations of human rights within maternity care systems.

 https://www.routledge.com/Birthing-Outside-the-System-The-Canary-in-the-Coal-Mine/Dahlen-Kumar-Hazard-Schmied/p/book/9781138592704

Bashi is on the board of Human Rights in Childbirth:

https://humanrightsinchildbirth.org/index.php/who-we-are/

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