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Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer, judge, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate

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Shirin Ebadi

Persian-Londoner lawyer, activist (born 1947)

Shirin Ebadi 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…
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Nobel Peace Prize

One of five Nobel Prizes established by Alfred Nobel

The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature. Since March 1901, it has been awarded…
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June 21

Day of the year

June 21 is the 172nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 193 days remain until the end of the year.
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