Dr. Shirin Ebadi was born in Iran in 1947. She is married and has two daughters. She received a law degree from the University of Tehran and at the age of 29 she was appointed as one of the first ...

Human-rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 laureate, has lived in exile since 2009 amid threats of arrest if she returns. Iran hasn’t commented on Mohammadi’s temporary release. Iran’s ...

“The ‘discursive tools’ of the Islamic Republic can be as dangerous as deadly weapons,” wrote Shirin Ebadi, a former Iranian judge who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, in a post on ...

an organization founded by fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi. Mohammadi was held in solitary confinement for a month, during which time her brother says she was tortured.

Because of that, Afghan and Iranian women, including prolific lawyers, journalists, and human rights defenders, such as Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi, the first woman Deputy Speaker in ...

The first Muslim woman to ever receive the Nobel Peace Prize Shirin Ebadi has inspired millions around the globe through her work as a human rights lawyer defending women and children against a ...

In the 2000s, she joined the Defenders of Human Rights Center set up by 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi, an organisation of which Mohammadi remains vice president. She was jailed from ...

The first Iranian to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Shirin Ebadi is a human rights activist, lawyer, and former judge. Listed by Forbes magazine as one of the "100 most powerful women in the world" ...

Mohammadi is the 19th woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and the second Iranian woman after human rights activist Shirin Ebadi in 2003. Mohammadi, 52, has kept up her activism despite numerous ...

It was cofounded by Shirin Ebadi, the only other Iranian to have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.