Topic: Shirin Ebadi

Women urged to put their stamp on Arab Spring

Reuters Life! Online Report - 107 days ago
DUBAI (Reuters) - Women should voice demands about their rights during the popular uprisings sweeping the Arab world to avoid being short-changed by post-revolutionary governments, Iranian Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi said.Ebadi, a practicing Muslim, also expressed hope that Arab men and ...

Opposition to Iran's rulers growing: Nobel laureate

Reuters US Online Report World News - 232 days ago
LONDON (Reuters) - Iranian Nobel peace prize winner Shirin Ebadi believes Iran's rulers will one day be overthrown even though a crackdown there has prevented the kind of uprising seen in the Arab world.Iran has crushed attempts to reignite Green movement ...

Nobel Peace Prize Laureates to meet in Ottawa to Release Report on Sexual Violence During Armed Conflict

David Pugliese's Defence Watch - 272 days ago
Press release on this event: (Ottawa) Three Nobel Peace Prize Laureates will join experts and survivors on Thursday, May 26, to release a new...

NJ's biggest city hosts Dalai Lama at peace summit

San Francisco Chronicle - 281 days ago
0 . A revered Tibetan spiritual leader, a man who served more than 12 years imprisoned on Louisiana's death row and a Nobel laureate from Vermont ...

Syria can spur Iran democracy: Nobel laureate

AFP Global Edition - 300 days ago
Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi voiced hope Saturday over mass protests in Syria, saying that the fall of Tehran's main Arab ally would send a powerful signal to the Islamic regime."Democracy in Islamic and Arab countries, specifically Syria, will certainly ...

Ebadi says Arab-style revolt certain soon in Iran

Reuters US Online Report World News - 346 days ago
GENEVA (Reuters) - Iranian Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi said on Wednesday an Arab-style popular revolt would come soon to her country, driven by poverty and the fierce oppression of critics by its Islamic rulers.But Ebadi, a defense lawyer for Iranian dissidents ...

Technology means age of dictators over: Ebadi

Reuters US Online Report Technology News - 380 days ago
LONDON (Reuters) - Iranian Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi said on Wednesday the rise of communication technology in organizing political protest meant dictators would no longer be able to sleep soundly at night.Referring to demonstrations against President Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and an ...

Iran human rights activist jailed for 11 years

Reuters US Online Report World News - 403 days ago
TEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iranian human rights lawyer who has worked with Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi, has been jailed for 11 years for actions deemed "detrimental to national security," the activist's lawyer said on Monday.Nasrin Sotoudeh, who has worked ...

Top Iran rights lawyer jailed for 11 years: family

AFP Global Edition - 403 days ago
Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been sentenced to 11 years in jail and banned for 20 years from working as an attorney and leaving the country, her husband told AFP on Monday."They told my wife's lawyer yesterday ...

Iranian Nobel laureate says opposition growing

AP News - 466 days ago
AP Interview: Iranian Nobel laureate says opposition to Iranian government is increasingIranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi said Monday that opposition to the Iranian government is growing, spurred by an increase in government violence, more human rights violations and deepening poverty.The human ...