Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi told a CU Boulder audience Friday night that unlike Iran’s male-dominated 1979 revolution that overthrew the Shah and produced a theocratic dictatorship, the ...

Shirin Ebadi, who won the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize for her work on human rights in Iran, will visit CU Boulder on Friday, April 7, for a special evening event, film screening and audience Q&A to be held ...

At an informal meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, the American ambassador called on the global community to give its “moral support” to protesters in Iran. By Farnaz Fassihi ...

TEHRAN, Islamic Republic of Iran, August 8 (UNHCR) - In 2003, Iranian lawyer and human rights activist Shirin Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work on behalf of democracy and human ...

Here is a look at the life of Shirin Ebadi, the first Muslim woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Is the first Iranian to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Is a campaigner for women's and children's rights ...

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When Shirin Ebadi was in prison in Tehran a few years ago for accusing officials of plotting attacks on reformers, her husband petitioned a court to visit her behind bars. “You are a free man now!” ...