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Shirin Ebadi

Shirin Ebadi

Iranian lawyer


Birthday
Saturday
She is born 77 years, 5 months and 2 days ago
Birthplace
Hamadan, Iran
Nationality: iranian Iran
Birth sign: Cancer
Chinese birth sign: Pig

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.

She has lived in exile in London since 2009.

Source : Wikipedia