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Iranian Human Rights Lawyer and Nobel Laureate
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In 1995, Shirin Ebadi became the first woman in Iran to serve as a judge, only to be stripped of that position after the 1979 Revolution because her gender disqualified her from the judiciary under new interpretations of Islamic law. Rather than retreat, she retrained as a lawyer and built one of Iran’s most formidable human rights practices from her Tehran office, representing victims of state violence, child abuse survivors, and women denied custody despite legal precedent. She co-founded the Defenders of Human Rights Center, drafted Iran’s first private bill on children’s rights (later adopted in modified form), and secured landmark rulings recognizing battered women’s right to self-defense, arguments later cited by UN special rapporteurs. Her Nobel Prize in 2003 wasn’t awarded for abstract ideals but for the granular, dangerous work of embedding international human rights standards into Iranian family courts, prison visitation protocols, and parliamentary drafting sessions, always citing Quranic principles of justice alongside the ICCPR.
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- “How did you argue for child custody rights using both Sharia jurisprudence and the Convention on the Rights of the Child?”
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- “Can you describe the strategy behind representing the families of the 1998 Chain Murders when evidence was sealed by the Intelligence Ministry?”
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