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A Look at the Life of Shirin Ebadi, the First Muslim Woman to Win Nobel Peace Prize.

date of birth: 21 June 1947

birth place: Hamdan, Iran

father: Muhammad Ali Ebadi, Professor of Law and Lawyer

Mother: my yamini

Marriage: Javad Tawasolian (1975—date of divorce unknown)

Children: Narges (Female); Negar (Female)

education: University of Tehran, law degree, 1969; University of Tehran, doctorate, 1971

Religion: Islam

first iranian to win Nobel Peace Prize,

is a preacher rights of women and children And have published many books on the subject.

Worked to try to change child custody laws in Iran after 9-year-old Ariane Golshani was beaten to death by her father and stepmother. Golshani’s mother was not allowed his custody because of Iranian laws favoring men over women.

March 1969 – Became Iran’s first female judge.

1975-1979 , Serves as the President of the City Court of Tehran.

1979 , He is forced to step down as a judge after the Islamic Revolution.

1999 – Campaign to reveal the identity of the attackers who killed several students at Tehran University.

2000 – After serving more than three weeks in prison and suspended from practicing law for five years, he and another lawyer were charged with releasing a video purportedly condemning members of the government Was.

2001 – Won the Rafto Prize for his work promoting democracy and fighting for human rights in Iran.

2003 – Victory Nobel Peace Prize.

2006 – Her memoir “Iran Awakening: One Woman’s Journey to Claim Her Life and Country” has been published. Helps to establish the Nobel Women’s Initiative along with other women’s peace prize recipients.

2007 – The prisoner represents Haleh Esfandiyari, an Iranian-American scholar who has been released after being arrested on charges of endangering national security.

2008 – Ebadi’s book “Refugee Rights in Iran” is published.

April 2008 – Iranian after receiving death threats to Ebadi Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad police inquiry order

December 2008 – Iranian security forces raid Ebadi’s office in Tehran. She tells CNN that the authorities gave her no reason to close her office.

June 2009 – Begins life in exile in the United Kingdom.

November 2009 – The Iranian government confiscated Ebadi’s Nobel medal and froze his bank accounts.

2011 – his book “The Golden Cage: Three Brothers, Three Choice, One Destiny” is published.

August 2015 – Ebadi and other high-profile Iranians released a video encouraging Americans to support the nuclear deal with Iran.

March 2016 – His memoir “As long as we are free: My fight for human rights in Iran” has been published.

February-March 2018 – Visited Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, With Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Tawakkol Karman Yemen and Mairead Maguire Northern Ireland. Nobel Women’s Initiative fact-finding delegation called for ending Massacre In Myanmar.