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	Shirin Ebadi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ebadi entered the law department of the University of Tehran in 1965, and participated in the entry exam for judges immediately after graduation in 1969.
		Ebadi now lectures law at the University of Tehran and is a campaigner for strengthening the legal status of children and women, the latter of which played a key role in the May 1997 landslide presidential election of the reformist Mohammad Khatami.
		Ebadi and Rohami were sentenced to five years in jail and suspension of their law licenses for sending Ebrahimi's videotaped deposition to Islamic President Khatami and the head of the Islamic judiciary.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shirin_Ebadi (1352 words)

	Shirin Ebadi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Shirin Ebadi (شیرین عبادی in Persian) (born 1947 in Hamadan, Iran) is a human rights and democracy activist, and a lawyer.
		Ebadi now lectures law at the University of Tehran, and is a campaigner for strengthening the legal status of children and women, the latter of which played a key role in the May 1997 landslide presidential election of the reformist Mohammad Khatami and have since been striving for a more active role in public life.
		Shirin Ebadi I was born in the city of Hamedan [northwestern Iran] in 1947.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Shirin_Ebadi.html (1095 words)

	FRONTLINE/WORLD . Iran - Forbidden Iran . Interview With Iranian Nobel Prize Winner Shirin Ebadi \| PBS
		Shirin Ebadi, age 56, has fought for women's rights, children's rights and human rights for years, defending political activists and other human rights lawyers.
		Ebadi was Iran's first woman judge before the 1979 Islamic revolution -- at which point she was fired by the mullahs.
		This meant Ebadi could be prosecuted for any statement she made in the interview that could be deemed to be subversive.
	www.pbs.org /frontlineworld/stories/iran/ebadi.html (672 words)

	Shirin Ebadi - The First Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Winner - 2003
		Shirin Ebadi is the first Muslim woman and the 11th woman overall to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize since its inception in 1901.
		Ebadi -- who also is Iran's first female judge -- was hailed around the world as a courageous champion of political freedom after the Norwegian Nobel Committee honored her for promoting peaceful and democratic solutions in the struggle for human rights.
		Ebadi served as Iran's first female judge in the waning years of the Western-backed monarchy, which was toppled by the Islamic Revolution of 1979, when she was forced to resign.
	www.farsinet.com /shirin_ebadi (3974 words)

	Shirin Ebadi (Human Rights Watch Press release, )
		Ebadi was the lead attorney on a number of cases that highlighted the use of violence and repression by Iranian judiciary and security forces to silence students’ increasingly vocal challenges to government practices.
		Ebadi also served as the attorney for the family of Dariush and Parvaneh Forouhar, who were among a number of dissidents killed in 1998 and 1999.
		Ebadi, 56, and a small group of lawyers formed an organization, the Center for the Defense of Human Rights, to provide legal aid to the families of imprisoned journalists and student activists.
	www.hrw.org /press/2003/10/ebadi-bio.htm (447 words)

	Shirin Ebadi wins Nobel for peace- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		She takes an active part in the public debate and is well-known and admired by the general public in her country for her defence in court of victims of the conservative faction's attack on freedom of speech and political freedom.
		Ebadi represents Reformed Islam, and argues for a new interpretation of Islamic law which is in harmony with vital human rights such as democracy, equality before the law, religious freedom and freedom of speech.
		Ebadi is an activist for refugee rights, as well as those of women and children.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=226038 (858 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Iranian activist Shirin Ebadi wins 2003 Nobel Peace Prize
		Ebadi said Iran's most pressing human rights crisis is the lack of freedom of speech, and she urged the government to immediately release prisoners jailed for expressing their opinions.
		The Nobel committee said Ebadi is well-known and admired by Iranians for her defense in court of victims of attacks by hard-liners on freedom of speech and political freedom.
		Ebadi, who also is known for her writings, was Iran's first female judge, her husband said, and served as president of the city court of Tehran from 1975-79.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20031010-0746-nobel-peace.html (1352 words)

	OpinionJournal - Extra
		Ebadi's award: the dissident secular writer Mohammad Jafar Pouyandeh, who was killed by government agents on Dec. 10, 1998, the day on which his translation of the history and text of the Universal Declaration of Human rights was published.
		Ebadi was the lawyer for the Forouhars' family, for which she was jailed and disbarred for five years.
		Ebadi had no political record; she had distinguished herself as Iran's first female judge, and served as president of the city court of Tehran from 1975 to 1979.
	www.opinionjournal.com /extra?id=110004186 (1311 words)

	Augsburg College - Nobel Peace Prize Forum
		Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian lawyer and human rights activist who served as president of the city court of Tehran (1975-79), one the first female judges in Iran.
		Ebadi represents Reformed Islam, and argues for a new interpretation of Islamic law which is in harmony with vital human rights.
		In her acceptance speech, Ms Ebadi stated that her selection “will be an inspiration to the masses of women who are striving to realize their rights, not only in Iran but throughout the region…” “Women constitute half of the population of every country.
	www.augsburg.edu /ppf/about.html (323 words)

	Amir Taheri on Shirin Ebadi on National Review Online
		Second, Ebadi makes a point of emphasizing her Iranian-ness, much to the chagrin of the mullahs, who insist that Islam recognizes no national boundaries and that the love of one's homeland is incompatible with the love of God.
		In that context, the Ebadi's generation, which gave Iran its first women members of parliament, cabinet ministers, provincial governors, ambassadors, army and police commanders, aircraft pilots, surgeons, and bus and taxi drivers was a truly heroic one.
		Ebadi rejects that "Islamic" hierarchy as "absurd and dangerous." "There is no future for mankind without human rights," she said at her first international press conference in Paris on Monday.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/taheri200310170919.asp (1489 words)

	Bad Jens - A short visit with Shirin Ebadi
		Shortly after Shirin Ebadi was released from prison three years ago, she gave an interview that was published in Iran in the feminist journal, Jens-e Dovom.
		Shirin is the lawyer of Parastoo and Arash Forouhar [the couple's daughter and son].
		When Shirin thinks of the delays her cases have undergone, she’s surprised by the short time it took her own sentence to be issued.
	www.badjens.com /newissue/ebadi.htm (1900 words)

	USATODAY.com - Human rights activist says war hurts efforts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ebadi, 57, spoke in an interview near the end of a lecture tour of the USA and Canada that concluded Friday.
		Ebadi was kept in solitary confinement in Tehran in 2000 for representing relatives of intellectuals and students killed by pro-regime vigilantes.
		Ebadi was appointed one of Iran's first female judges under the government of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi After the 1979 Islamic revolution, she was demoted to the job of secretary to the Tehran central court where she had presided.
	www.usatoday.com /news/2004-06-13-ebadi-usat_x.htm (928 words)

	The Most Inspiring Person of the Year Award -- featuring finalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi -- ...
		Ebadi knew the risks she was taking with her own freedom and safety--including anything from prison time to physical assault--but she persevered.
		Shirin was at a conference in Paris when the Nobel award was announced; when she returned to Tehran, 10,000 people—many of them young women for whom she is a role model—came to the airport to welcome her home.
		Ebadi is therefore acting in the true spirit of this religion (compassion, mercy and faith in God).
	www.beliefnet.com /story/137/story_13706_1.html (479 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Profile: Shirin Ebadi
		A graduate of Tehran University, Shirin Ebadi was the first female judge in her country, serving as president of the Tehran city court, from 1975.
		Shirin Ebadi has written books calling for greater legal protection for Iranian children and disclosing alleged human rights violations by the Iranian authorities, and she also lectures at Tehran University.
		In a BBC interview conducted in Paris, where she was on a visit when the award was announced, Shirin Ebadi said she was not worried about returning home as she had worked in Iran for years.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/3181992.stm (665 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Ebadi to remove headscarf for awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ebadi, however, did point out that she was opposed to moves in secularist France to ban the hijab from schools: "I protest equally against the French government as I do against the Iranian government."
		Ebadi, 56, insisted her life "has not changed" since she was awarded the prize in October, although she did admit that demands on her time and workload were increasing.
		Ebadi also shrugged off the disappointment of those in the Islamic republic hoping she would be taking on a more public role in her opposition to the conservative figures that pull many of the strings in Iran and have frustrated the reform efforts of President Muhammad
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/83ADAE15-B1C8-4C46-81F2-62B4E8D1F3CB.htm (648 words)

	Shirin Ebadi —
		Shirin Ebadi is the first Iranian to have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
		Shirin Ebadi was born in the city of Hamedan, Iran in 1947.
		Shirin has a quite and soft spoken nature but this belies her stubborness and unwillingness to be silenced on politically sensitive legal cases.
	www.writespirit.net /authors/shirin_ebadi (371 words)

	The Epoch Times :: Non-Democratic Governments Should Not Receive Assistance, Says Nobel Laureate
		Ebadi made her comments Monday in a speech at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington.
		Ebadi is pushing for a new interpretation of Islam that respects human rights.
		Ebadi also said she believes freedom is the most important human possession.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/4-5-4/21252.html (471 words)

	IRVAJ English -
		Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner, was the guest on Wednesday of a joint meeting of Parliament's Foreign Affairs and Women's Rights Committees.
		MEPs greeted her with a thunderous round of applause, after which Ms Ebadi gave a speech setting out her views on the role of Islam in democracy, the situation of women in Iran and the parliamentary elections of 20 February, which are expected to result in a big victory for conservatives.
		Turning to the relationship between Islam and human rights, Shirin Ebadi set out her position straight away: "Islam is a religion which protects women's rights", she said, explaining that it was "patriarchal culture" that lay at the root of many social problems.
	www.iranvajahan.net /cgi-bin/news.pl?l=en&y=2004&m=03&d=04&a=11 (687 words)

	Dhimmi Watch: Nobel laureate: "Islam is the religion of equality and has no contradiction with the declaration of human ...
		Ebadi is not the object of great admiration among Iranians in exile, except among the "soft" apologists who cannot quite make the full break with Islam.
		No doubt, Ebadi, who has chosen to take her stand on the treatment of women, cannot admit to herself what the real tenets of Islam are; she is illogical, and ignores the reality of Islam.
		Instead of Ebadi, it is the ex-Muslims, those who have made a clean break with what, through no fault of their own, they were born into, who are the most valuable witnesses for non-Muslims.
	www.jihadwatch.org /dhimmiwatch/archives/001220.php (2006 words)

	Nobel laureate champions democracy - THE DAILY BRUIN ONLINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Shirin Ebadi, the first Iranian and the first Muslim woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, spoke at Royce Hall on Friday, sharing her views on achieving equality for Iranian women and spreading democracy, including to Iraq.
		Ebadi's speech, an event sponsored by the UCLA International Institute, was one of a series of visits to university campuses that included Harvard and Stanford.
		Ebadi's comments about internal peace resonated closely with Anusha Kalbasi, a second-year biochemistry student and the education chair of the Iranian Student Group, who said that as a young student he is looking for direction in life.
	www.dailybruin.ucla.edu /news/articles.asp?id=29055 (715 words)

	CNN.com - Iranian rights activist wins Nobel - Oct. 10, 2003
		Shirin Ebadi's prize embarrasses the hard-line leaders who vilify her.
		Iranian activist Shirin Ebadi has won the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize for her focus on human rights, especially on the struggle to improve the status of women and children.
		Ebadi, one of Iran's first female judges before being forced to stand down after the Islamic revolution, said she hoped the award could bring change in her country.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/europe/10/10/nobel.peace (818 words)

	Muslim American Society
		Ebadi won the Nobel Peace Prize for championing the rights of women and children in Iran and elsewhere in the world.
		Accompanying Ebadi at the news conference was Karim Lahidji, an Iranian human-rights leader living in exile in Paris.
		Ebadi also told the audience not to believe in the theory of a clash of civilizations.
	www.masnet.org /articleinterest.asp?id=1247 (582 words)

	[FREE IRAN Project] In The Spirit Of Cyrus The Great :: View topic - Washington DC Iranian Community Boycotts Shirin ...
		Ebadi had to make her speech just for a selected audience of 5,000 individuals filing only half of the Maryland College University's conference hall while the WDC area's Iranian community is estimated to be strong of more than 100,000 souls.
		Ebadi stated that "she kisses the hands of the Islamic Parliament members" and called for a "massive participation for their re-election of the very same MPs" that saw their mass rejection in the boycott of Iran's last elections by a majority of Iranians tired of such games.
		Ebadi would not have risked her precious life if she would have only kept her initial word of staying afar from political issues instead of choosing to become an advocator of rejected factions of the current regime and Iran's minor soft opposition from within the Islamic republic.
	www.activistchat.com /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2304 (1747 words)

	Shirin Ebadi: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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		They claim that none of Ebadi's previous activities were directly related to the stated goals for the award of the Nobel Peace Prize, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sh/shirin_ebadi.htm (2023 words)

	Shirin Ebadi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize, visited the Islamic Center of America, the largest Islamic center in the nation.
		Nobel laureate and human rights activist Shirin Ebadi discusses the plight of women in Iran, Bush's similarity to Ahmadinejad and why direct negotiations are...
		Ebadi received a law degree from the University of Tehran and is famous for becoming the first female judge in Iran.
	www.wikiverse.org /shirin-ebadi (680 words)

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