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Ebadi, Shirin

By: Leesha Thrower
In: Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World
Edited by: Mary Zeiss Stange, Carol K. Oyster & Jane E. Sloan
Subject:Women's Studies, Women in Management, Sociology of Gender

Shirin Ebadi is a lawyer, human rights activist, and author. In 2003, she became the first Iranian as well as the first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Ebadi has received numerous awards for her humanitarian work with women's and children's rights, been bestowed with honorary doctoral degrees [Page 443]from colleges and universities, is an internationally known speaker, and has cofounded several nonprofit organizations to aid women and children in Iran.

Nobel Peace Prize award winner Shirin Ebadi in Paris at the nongovernmental organization, International Federation for Human Rights. Ebadi cofounded the Society for Protecting the Rights of the Child, and the Human Rights Defense Center

Born in Hamadan, Iran, on June 21, 1947, Ebadi and her family moved to Tehran in 1948. Upon ...

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  Thrower, L. (2011). Ebadi, shirin. In M. Z. StangeC. K. Oyster, & J. E. Sloan (Eds.), Encyclopedia of women in today's world (Vol. 1, pp. 443-444). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412995962.n237
  
  Thrower, Leesha. "Ebadi, Shirin." In Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World, Firstedited by Stange, Mary Zeiss., Carol K. Oyster, and Jane E. Sloan, 443-44. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412995962.n237.
  
  Thrower, L. 2011. Ebadi, Shirin. In: Mary Z. Stange, Carol K. Oyster and Jane E. Sloan Editors, 2011. Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World, First edn, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 443-444 Available at: <http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412995962.n237> [Accessed 19 Apr 2021].
  
  Thrower, Leesha. "Ebadi, Shirin." Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World. Edited by Mary Z. StangeCarol K. Oyster and Jane E. Sloan.First ed Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2011, pp. 443-44. SAGE Knowledge. 19 Apr 2021, doi: http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412995962.n237.
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Nobel Peace Prize award winner Shirin Ebadi in Paris at the nongovernmental organization, International Federation for Human Rights. Ebadi cofounded the Society for Protecting the Rights of the Child, and the Human Rights Defense Center

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