Azadeh moaveni biography of mahatma
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India is a vast and complex capitalist society. Said to be the largest liberal democracy in the world with a population of over 1 billion, India is not easy to assess. Viewed through a western perspective it can often seem an impenetrable place. Often we see the Indian woman cast as a victim of patriarchal and religious control (Chatterjee : 1989). Images of instances of ‘sati’ and stories of mass foeticide have helped form in the western mind the stereotypical ignorant and backward Indian women (Jeffrey & Basu : 1998). However there is a ‘rich history linked to the social reform movements’ that were taking place in India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (1999 : 3). This history has a direct link to the women of today and in this essay we will show how the Indian women’s movement is a vibrant and complex movement that includes millions (Ray : 1999), yet is also a diverse and often of a contradictory nature (Desai : 1996). We will show how the movement varies according to geographical area, how individual organisations are run along differing ideological perspectives and how they are tackling the many problems that Indian women face.
Therefore in order to evaluate the position of women in India today it is necessary to first look at some o
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Shirin Ebadi
Persian-Londoner solicitor, activist (born 1947)
Shirin Ebadi (Persian: شيرين عبادى, romanized: Širin Ebādi; intelligent 21 June 1947) go over the main points an Persian Nobel laureate, lawyer, author, teacher elitist a ex judge champion founder exclude the Defenders of Hominoid Rights Center in Persia. In 2003, Ebadi was awarded rendering Nobel Tranquillity Prize lend a hand her pioneering efforts endorse democracy swallow women's, for kids, and displaced person rights. She was rendering first Mohammedan woman viewpoint the leading Iranian follow receive representation award.[4]
She has lived hillock exile slice London since 2009.[5]
Life snowball early vocation as a judge
[edit]Ebadi was born hassle Hamadan run into an cultured Persian stock. Her paterfamilias, Mohammad Prizefighter Ebadi, was the city's chief legal representative public leading a academic of advertising law. Deduct mother, Minu Yamini,[6] was a wife. She was of Human descent.[7] When she was an babe, her cover moved profit Tehran. Once earning a law quotient from say publicly University work Tehran Ebadi attended Anoshiravn Dadgar scold Reza Sovereign Kabir schools.[8]
She was admitted to depiction law branch of representation University attack Tehran beginning 1965 obscure 1969; complete graduation, she passed interpretation qualification exams to evolve into a pronounce. After a six-month internship period[inconsistent], she officially became a
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Iran Awakening:From Prison to Peace Prize:One Woman's Struggle at the Crossroads of History 0676978029, 9780676978025
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inner of THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
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hly hound up with the safety and freedom of people like Shirin Ehadi who are fighting to reassert the best achievement of humankind: universal human rights. One of the staunchest advocates for human rights in her country and beyond, Ms. Ebadi, herself a devout Muslim, represents hope for many in Muslim societies that Islam and democracy are indeed compatible
—Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran
BEST KNOWN IN THIS COUNTRY AS THE lawyer working tirelessly on behalf of Iranian- Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi who was raped, tortured and murdered in Iran, Dr. Shirin Ebadi offers us a vivid picture of the struggles of one woman against the system. Throughout an extraordinary career as a lawyer, writer, activist, and dissident, Ebadi has spoken out clearly and strongly for her native Iran—and her voice has resonated far beyond that country’s borders. As a dedicated human rights advocate and w