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The Nobel Prize - Shirin Ebadi Becomes First Muslim Woman to Win Nobel Peace...

Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian lawyer, becomes the first muslim woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her work on women's rights and political change in Iran.Add this to your queueAdded: Fri Oct 09 22:45:13 UTC 2009Air date: Fri Oct 10 00:00:00 UTC 2003Duration: 01:41

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Rights activist calls for Iran to free detained U.S. citizens

Iranian human rights activist and lawyer Shirin Ebadi called for Iranian authorities to free U.S. citizens accused of espionage, Iranian news agency IRNA reported.

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Britain is appeasing Iran, Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi says

The only Iranian to win the Nobel Peace Prize accused Britain of ignoring the regime’s savage suppression of opposition in order to safeguard talks on its nuclear programme.

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Ebadi accuses western countries of ignoring human rights

Shirin Ebadi the only Iranian to win the Nobel Peace Prize accused western countries of ignoring the human rights’ suppression for the sake of safeguarding talks on its nuclear program. Shirin Ebadi, the human rights lawyer, said that her worst fears were confirmed when she saw the British ...

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A Muslim woman's place is in society: Nobel Laureate

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The Peace Prize As The Special Olympics Nobel

If you look at the people picking up the Nobel Peace Prize, they’re frequently “indigenous” people like the mendacious Rigoberta Menchu or Third World “wise men” like Mohammed Yunus. , Wangari Maathai, or Shirin Ebadi. (All together now–“Who?”)But if someone is going to discover something new in physics, chemistry, or medicine…not so much. John [...]

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Nobel Prize puts pressure on Barack Obama and Israel

T he Nobel Peace Prize was always political, in the positive sense. The awards to Desmond Tutu, Yitzhak Rabin/Yasser Arafat, José Ramos-Horta of East Timor, Shirin Ebadi of Iran, etc. were meant to advance peace and other causes. Barack Obama's ...

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A Muslim woman's place is in society: Nobel Laureate

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Iranian Nobel Laureate and human rights activist Shirin Ebadi on Monday implored Muslim women to assume a wider role in their home countries through education and active participation in politics. "Women must fulfill their duty to society and not stay at home," she told participants in the Festival of Thinkers forum in Abu Dhabi. Ebadi said that young girls tend to become housewives after they graduate, which means that "their education is wasted." "Women should be educated... Education is an obligation under Islam. Why do we oppose our religion's decrees?" asked Ebadi who spoke in Farsi. "Why has the level of illiteracy gone up ... Read Full Story

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China dissidents top Nobel Peace Prize speculation

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Chinese dissidents are leading the odds of winning the Nobel Peace Prize this year, the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre and the 60th since the establishment of the People's Republic of China. Speculation on the chances of Chinese dissidents for the peace prize, announced this year on Friday, has been a yearly ritual. But this time there's a stronger current of expectation surrounding critics of China's long-standing communist regime. Emerging superpower China remains deeply sensitive about criticism of its bloody 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters at Tiananmen Square. And awarding dissidents would be a major poke-in-the-eye in the year the communist regime ... Read Full Story

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Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi in Berlin

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Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and human rights activist Shirin Ebadi in Renaissance-Theater in Berlin on Nov. 15th 2009 to speak about the human rights situation in Iran. Photo and videos by: Markku Rainer Peltonen Read Full Story

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Nobel laureate calls on U.N. chief to visit Iran

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SEOUL (Reuters) - Iranian Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi on Tuesday called on the U.N. chief to visit Iran to receive a first-hand account of human rights abuses and warned against sanctions because they would hurt the Iranian people. Iran's June 12 election, which secured hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election, plunged Iran into its biggest internal crisis since the 1979 Islamic revolution, exposed deepening divisions in its ruling elite and set off a wave of protests that left 26 people dead. "I ask U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to visit Iran," Ebadi told reporters in Seoul, where she picked up a local peace prize. "He ... Read Full Story

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Nobel laureate urges Iran to release detainees

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Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi urged Iran's government to release detained activists and citizens accused of involvement in the country's postelection unrest, saying the president must "listen to the people's voice." Hundreds of people in Iran have been detained following massive demonstrations protesting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's June 12 re-election. On Sunday, Iran's police chief acknowledged that some of the detained protesters were abused in custody, but said the death of some prisoners was caused by illness not torture. However, Ebadi, an Iranian lawyer who won the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize, said in an interview with The Associated Press in Seoul that police tortured some detainees ... Read Full Story

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