Shirin ebadi biography human rights commission

Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian human rights lawyer. She has represented clients who have fallen foul of the Iranian political system and has been subject to intense scrutiny from her own government. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in for her courage in defending human rights and democracy. Ebadi was born in Hamadan, Iran on the 21st June A year later in , her family moved to Tehran.

In , she became the first president of the Tehran city court. Despite opposing the rule of the pro-Western Shah and initially supporting the revolution of , Ebadi was dismayed to find the new Islamic republic prohibited women from becoming judges and were marginalised from society. She lost her position as the president of the city court and was demoted to a secretarial position.

For several years, she campaigned to regain her legal career.

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Although her campaigns made her unpopular with the government, in , she was granted a law office permit and was able to practise law. She later explained the motivation for fighting for her rights. When there is a shipwreck the passenger then falls in the ocean and has no choice but to keep swimming. What happened in our society was that the laws overturned every right that women had.

I had no choice. I could not get tired, I could not lose hope. I cannot afford to do that. As a practising lawyer, Ebadi has been willing to take up the cases of unpopular dissident figures who have fallen out of favour with the political and judicial establishment.