Iranian womens rights activists

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 23. Chapters: Azam Taleghani, Azar Majedi, Bahareh Hedayat, Bibi Khanoom Astarabadi, Delaram Ali, Elaheh Koulaei, Faezeh Hashemi, Farrokhroo Parsa, Forough Azarakhshi, Iran Teymourtash, Jila Baniyaghoob, Lobat Vala, Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh, Manijeh Hekmat, Mansoureh Shojaee, Mehrangiz Kar, Mohtaram Eskandari, Nasrin Sotoudeh, Noor-ol-Hoda Mangeneh, Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani, Parvin Ardalan, Roya Toloui, Sediqeh Dowlatabadi, Shadi Sadr, Shahla Lahiji, Shahla Sherkat, Sheema Kalbasi, Shirin Ebadi, Shiva Nazar Ahari, Shokoufeh Kavani, Simin Behbahani, Tahmineh Milani, Zahra Eshraghi, Zandokht Shirazi. Excerpt: Shirin Ebadi (Persian: ¿ ¿irin Eb¿di; born 21 June 1947) is an Iranian lawyer, a former judge and human rights activist and founder of Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran. On 10 October 2003, Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her significant and pioneering efforts for democracy and human rights, especially women's, children's, and refugee rights. She was the first ever Iranian to receive the prize. In 2009, Ebadi's award was allegedly confiscated by Iranian authorities, though this was later denied by the Iranian government. If true, she would be the first person in the history of the Nobel Prize whose award has been forcibly seized by state authorities. Ebadi lived in Tehran, but she has been in exile in the UK since June 2009 due to the increase in persecution of Iranian citizens who are critical of the current regime. In 2004, she was listed by Forbes magazine as one of the "100 most powerful women in the world". She is also included in a published list of the "100 most influential women of all time." Ebadi was born in Hamadan from an ethnic Persian family, Iran. Her father, Mohammad Ali Ebadi, was the city's chief notary public and a professor of commercial law. Her family moved to Tehran in 1948. She was admitted to the law department of the University of Tehran in 1965 and in 1969, upon graduation, passed the qualification exams to become a judge. After a six-month internship period, she officially became a judge in March of 1969. She continued her studies in University of Tehran in the meantime to pursue a master's degree in law in 1971. In 1975, she became the first woman president of the Tehran city court, and also the first ever woman judge in Iran. Following the Iranian revolution in 1979, conservative clerics insisted that Islam prohibits women from becoming judges and Ebadi was demoted to a secretarial position at the branch where she had previously presided. She and other female judges protested and were assigned to the slightly higher p