Dec 16, 2008

Iran travel, Shirin Ebadi

Iranian lawyer and winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Shirin Ebadi attends a conference on Islam at Rome's auditorium. One day before the 2007 International Women's Day, Shirin Ebadi called for an end to discrimination against women in Iran, where security forces arrested around 30 women's rights activists on Sunday who were demonstrating outside a courtroom where five fellow campaigners were on trial.

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