Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian human rights lawyer. She was born in Hamadan, Iran in 1947 but a year later her family moved to Tehran.
Ebadi studied law at the University of Tehran and grutuated in 1969; she later gained a doctorate's degree in law.
In 1975 she became the first woman president of the Tehran city until 1979.
After Iranian Revolution, every women were banned from becoming judges.
Later a lot of protests Shirin Ebadi became ''low expert'', in 1992 she had the athorisation to became lawyer, opened her own study and in 2003 she gained Nobel Peace Prize.
