The term "human rights" can be applied to many, many things. After the Bellevue Hospital Natural Birth center in Manhattan, one of the few centers that cater not to the wealthy but to poor women, closed this month amid controversy, we decided to take a look at the way the health care system treats pregnant women. Our panelists consider giving birth in an environment of your choice to be a basic human right. Katherine Abelson, midwife at the Brooklyn Birthing Center, Elan McAllister, doula and president and founder of Choices in Childbirth, and Debra Pascali-Bonaro, doula and director and producer of Orgasmic Birth talk about the way our health care system fails pregnant women. Meanwhile, in a different human rights discussion, last month, Laura moderated a debate sponsored by the Middle East Institute at Columbia University on Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel (BDS) in pursuit of a just peace in the Middle East. Omar Barghouti, Palestinian human rights activist and founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and of the Palestinian Civil Society Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. and George Fletcher, Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia Law School and author of Rethinking Criminal Law, discussed whether the BDS strategy is helpful or counterproductive. Alec Loorz was inspired by Al Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth, to become an educator on the issue of climate change.  Founding his own organization, Kids vs. Global Warming, Alec continues to fight fossil fuels and other contributors to global warming, and encourages his peers to do the same. He was honored with a Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Thanks to Rikshaw Films for the video.