On Monday Iranian human rights defender and lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh was sentenced to 33 years in prison and 148 lashes after being unjustly detained for nearly eight months. She is being punished simply for doing her job, which includes standing up for the rights of women and children in the ...read more
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Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi has written to the President of Iran to express her support for the lifting of economic sanctions against the country—and to call on the President to release all Iranian political prisoners.
In her letter to President Hassan Rouhani, Ebadi calls on Iran’s ...read more
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Nobel laureates Jody Williams and Shirin Ebadi joined Tawakkol Karman in Turkey this week for the “Istanbul Conference on Peace in the Middle East: The Impacts of War on Women and Children.” The event was organized by the Tawakkol Karman Global Peace and Democracy Center at the Aydın ...read more
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The 14th annual World Summit of Nobel Laureates was held in Rome from December 12th to the 14th. The Summit was organized by the Permanent Secretariat of the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates. Nine Nobel Peace laureates participated in this year’s event.
Laureates Jody Williams, Tawakkol ...read more
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Last week, Nobel Laureates Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi and Leymah Gbowee attended the launch of a new platform spearheaded by France to promote the rights of women and equality in the European Union. Minister of Women's Rights, City, and Youth & Sports Najat Belkacem-Vallaud and Mayor of ...read more
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“The words that fill declarations and resolutions must be made real,” writes Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi in the New York Times. “They must be turned into action if survivors of gender violence are to feel the difference in their lives.”
Ebadi offers inspirational insights and thought-provoking ...read more
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Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi released her review of the human rights situation in Iran for May and June 2013. In this segment Ebadi focuses in particular on freedom of expression and the free flow of information.
Ebadi highlights three separate instances where a group known as "the unknown virtual ...read more
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Nobel Laureate and lawyer Shirin Ebadi released her November/December 2012 review of human rights in Iran. In this segment Ebadi focuses in particular on the welfare of children.
Ebadi highlights a recent case in which 31 girls were wounded in a fire at a West Azerbayjan Province school; two of ...read more
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