Exclusive conference coverage from openDemocracy 50.50: Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi writes that The framework of democracy is human rights law ahead of our Women Beyond War conference. 
Democracy is more of a culture than a way of governing or a political system. It is a historical process that must go through its evolution. No country can be a quasi democracy. It is in fact democratic people that make a society democratic, says Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi
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