We have been working about the nobel prizes and we have analyzed 6 different subjects like physics, chemistry, literature, peace, economics and physiology and medicine. One of these subjects has drawn my attention: peace; especially the woman called Shirin Ebadi.
This woman is an Iranian lawyer, a former judge and human rights activist and founder of Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran. She was awarded on 2003 because of her efforts for democracy and human rights, especially women's, children's, and refugee rights. Shirin Ebadi was the first ever Iranian to receive the prize.
I like this woman because when she received the prize lot of people criticized her because she turned up to the ceremony without cover the hair, as imposed by Iranian law and because she defended the homosexuality. She also received threats because she was defending some agents of C.I.A. and after all this, in 2008, the Centre of Defenders of Human Rights, directed by her, was closed, which provoked international condemnation.
But I think that in Iran, the human rights of women and children weren't very advanced, but this woman, fought to improve this human rights and she got it. After this, the human rights were better but they still should be better.
Here, I've put a video of Shirin Ebadi, receiving the prize and talking about her efforts:
