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Shirin Ebadi is known for her many outstanding achievements promoting peace in the world. Not only was she honored with the Thorolf Rafto Award in 2001, but in 2003, she received the Nobel Peace Prize for encouraging the humanitarian rights of the women and children in Iran, her home country. However, she faced many hardships along the way. A few years after she earned her law degree, she was forced to resign as a judge in Iran when Iran became an Islamic Republic. After that, she was denied a law license. However, that did not stop her. In 1992, she developed her own law firm. That is where she developed her interest in women’s rights. Women never had the same rights as men, so people fighting for equality have their work cut out for them. Shirin Ebadi had to fight the law to try to get her way. She was put in jail many times and her life was threatened many times because of her efforts. That never stopped her. She kept trying to fight for what she believed. She never gave up.
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