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Shirin Ebadi
Persian-Londoner lawyer, activist (born 1947)
Shirin Ebadi (Persian: شيرين عبادى, romanized: Širin Ebādi; born 21 June 1947) is an Iranian Nobel laureate, lawyer, writer, teacher and a former judge and founder of the Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran.
In 2003, Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her pioneering efforts for democracy and women's, children's, and refugee rights. She was the first Muslim woman and the first Iranian to receive the award.[4]
She has lived in exile in London since 2009.[5]
Life and early career as a judge
Ebadi was born in Hamadan into an educated Persian family.
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Her father, Mohammad Ali Ebadi, was the city's chief notary public and a professor of commercial law. Her mother, Minu Yamini,[6] was a homemaker. She was of Jewish descent.[7] When she was an infant, her family moved to Tehran.
Before earning a law degree from the University of Tehran Ebadi attended Anoshiravn
