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00:00The Nobel Prize
00:14When the gravity of death first touched me, I had found preoccupation with the minutiae of daily life meaningless.
00:23Shirin Ibadi
00:26The Nobel Peace Prize 2003 was awarded to Shirin Ibadi for her efforts for democracy and human rights.
00:34She has focused especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children.
00:39Shirin Ibadi is an Iranian human rights lawyer.
00:43She has represented clients who have fallen foul of the Iranian political system
00:49and has been subject to intense scrutiny from her own government.
00:54Ibadi was born in Hamadan, Iran on the 21st of June 1947.
01:00A year later, in 1948, her family moved to Tehran.
01:04Ibadi studied law at the University of Tehran and graduated in 1969.
01:10She later gained a doctorate's degree in law.
01:14In a male-dominated society, she became Iran's first ever judge.
01:19In 1975, she became the first president of the Tehran city court.
01:25Despite opposing the rule of the pro-Western Shah and initially supporting the revolution of 1979,
01:32Ibadi was dismayed to find the new Islamic Republic prohibited women from becoming judges and were marginalised from society.
01:42She lost her position as the president of the city court and was demoted to a secretarial position.
01:49For several years, she campaigned to regain her legal career.
01:53Although her campaigns made her unpopular with the government,
01:57in 1993, she was granted a law office permit and was able to practice law.
02:03She later explained the motivation for fighting for her rights.
02:08I compare my situation to a person on board a ship.
02:11When there is a shipwreck, the passenger then falls in the ocean and has no choice but to keep swimming.
02:17What happened in our society was that the laws overturned every right that women had.
02:24I had no choice.
02:26I could not get tired.
02:27I could not lose hope.
02:29I cannot afford to do that.
02:322006.
02:33Interview with Harry Kreisler
02:36As a practicing lawyer, Ibadi has been willing to take up the cases of unpopular dissident figures
02:42who have fallen out of favour with the political and judicial establishment.
02:47In one case, she represented the family of Dariush Farohar, a dissident intellectual who was murdered in his home.
02:55This was during a period of several grisly murders of intellectual figures,
03:00allegedly by employees of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence.
03:05Ibadi has also been active in creating the Defenders of Human Rights Centre and also protecting against child abuses.
03:14However, in 2008, the Centre for the Defenders of Human Rights was closed down and its offices raided.
03:22Ibadi has said that the human rights situation has deteriorated in Iran in recent years.
03:28The reaction from the Iranian government was muted with increasing criticism of the decision.
03:34The conventional response from the government was to say that it was just a political decision.
03:40The Nobel Committee stated that the award was partly motivated by a desire to reduce tension between the Islamic and Western world,
03:48following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
03:53There have been reports her Nobel Prize was confiscated by the government, though they deny this.
04:00Since receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, Ibadi has used her high public profile to travel around the world, speaking on human rights.
04:09With other female Nobel Peace Prize winners, she formed the Nobel Women's Initiative.
04:15She has also agreed to represent political dissidents and members of Iran's minority, Baha'i community.
04:23Although Ibadi is critical of the Iranian regime, she has supported Iran's right to pursue nuclear technology.
04:31She is against forced regime change and has stated the most important goal is to promote democracy and human rights in Iran.
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