Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian human rights lawyer who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003. In 197579 she served as president of Tehrans city court, but was forced to resign after the 1979 revolution. In the 1980s, she founded the Association for Childrens Rights, and was briefly jailed for her exposure of plans to assassinate dissidents. Among her books are The Rights of the Child: a study of legal aspects of children's rights in Iran (1994), and The History and Documentation of Human Rights in Iran (2000).
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Obstacles to the progress of Human Rights in the World
Only by starting from common principles agreed upon by all, rather than
limiting ourselves to the principles which only we believe in, will we
make progress with human rights. Shirin Ebadi writes from the Nobel
Women’s Initiative conference.
The meaning of peace in the 21st centuryAn essential lesson of the age is that governments acquire their legitimacy through votes of people and respect for human rights, and that this is the best guarantee of security. Shirin Ebadi, Iranian human-rights lawyer and Nobel laureate, write exclusively for openDemocracy.
America and human rightsIs the United Statess love affair with human rights over? In the seventh of our Letters to Americans series, the Iranian lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi writes a heartfelt letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, pioneer of American humanitarianism and commitment to the United Nations.
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