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Shirin Ebadi

Geburtstag: 21. Juni 1947
Andere Namen:Shrin Ebadi

Shirin Ebadi ist eine iranische Juristin, erste iranische Richterin und Menschenrechtsaktivistin. Sie erhielt 2003 als erste muslimische Frau den Friedensnobelpreis und lebt seit Ende 2009 im Exil in Großbritannien.

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„Man darf nicht die Demokratie zum Vorwand nehmen und ein Land angreifen. Die Menschenrechte kann man den Menschen gewiss nicht durch Bomben bringen. Es darf auch nicht sein, daß man den Kampf gegen eine Diktatur zum Vorwand nimmt, um die Ressourcen einer Nation zu rauben. Demokratie und Menschenrechte können nur mit dem und durch den Willen der Menschen verwirklicht werden, nicht dagegen.“

— Shirin Ebadi
fünfte Weltethos-Rede, »Der Beitrag des Islam zu einem Weltethos«, 20. Oktober 2005, Tübingen, weltethos. org

Über die Welt

„Any person who pursues human rights in Iran must live with fear from birth to death, but I have learned to overcome my fear.“

— Shirin Ebadi
From 1999 interview. Noted in the October 2003 BBC News profile of Ebadi. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3181992.stm (retrieved Oct. 15, 2008)

„I, who have defended many prisoners of conscience such as the seven imprisoned Baha'i leaders and others, would face unacceptable restrictions on my human rights work if I returned to Iran, if I were not arrested, now my own lawyer - who also represents many other activists - is detained, and her lawyer has been threatened with arrest for defending her. Where is the justice if your lawyer is arrested for defending you?“

— Shirin Ebadi
About the arrest of

„I compare my situation to a person on board a ship. When there is a shipwreck the passenger then falls in the ocean and has no choice but to keep swimming. What happened in our society was that the laws overturned every right that women had. I had no choice. I could not get tired, I could not lose hope. I cannot afford to do that.“

— Shirin Ebadi
From 2006 interview with Ebadi by Harry Kreisler (translator, Banafsheh Keynoush) about her newly released book, Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope. From May 10 2006 interview with Ebadi at Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley. http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people6/Ebadi/ebadi-con3.html (retrieved Oct. 15, 2008)

„In my memoir, I wanted to introduce American women to Iranian women and our lives. I'm not from the highest echelons of society, nor the lowest. I'm a women who is a lawyer, who is a professor at a university, who won the Nobel Peace Prize. At the same time, I cook. And even when I'm about to go to prison, one of the first things I do is to make enough food and put it in the fridge for my family.“

— Shirin Ebadi
From 2006 interview with Ebadi by New America Media editor Brian Shott (translator, Banafsheh Keynoush) about her newly released book, Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope. New America Media, 2006. http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=8ad8e36442c10ef7fc33f0c8e70c08d8 (retrieved Oct. 15, 2008)