“The ‘discursive tools’ of the Islamic Republic can be as dangerous as deadly weapons,” wrote Shirin Ebadi, a former Iranian ...

Ebadi says she and clients have filed legal challenge to raids Next Article in World » TEHRAN, Iran (CNN)-- Iranian raids on the offices of dissident attorney Shirin Ebadi may have put her and ...

The issues facing us today are increasingly complex. A certain number of states have ignored the rules of international law to impose relations dominated by force. Domestically, repression is ...

A Norwegian human rights foundation gave its annual prize on Thursday to jailed Cuban dissident leader Luis Manuel Otero ...

Because of that, Afghan and Iranian women, including prolific lawyers, journalists, and human rights defenders, such as Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi, the first woman Deputy Speaker in ...

To mark the second anniversary of the protests against the death of Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, 34 women have gone on hunger ...

In Tunisia, the situation regarding freedoms and democracy has deteriorated to the point of a near-complete return to ...

Norway's Rafto Prize, honouring human rights champions, was on Thursday awarded to imprisoned Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara, "for his fearless opposition to authoritarianism through art." ...

Namdar has also interviewed various world leaders and newsmakers, including Nobel Peace-Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Jordan's Queen Rania, Pakistani Prime ...

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Four past laureates of the Rafto prize — Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi, East Timor's Jose Ramos-Horta, South Korea's Kim Dae-jung and Iran's Shirin Ebadi — later went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize.