Shirin Ebadi was the first Iranian, the third Muslim and the 11th woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize award along with India’s Mother Teresa of Calcutta and Burma’s Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

The 56-year-old lawyer and human rights activist is a formidable force behind reforming family laws by calling for change in divorce and inheritance legislation. Her campaigns for democracy and greater rights for the women and children of Iran made her highly controversial in the Middle East especially when pitted against conservative clerics.

Shirin is soft-spoken on the outside but inversely tough inside. When she was jailed after coming… Continue reading

Education is the key for women to move up the ladder of society.  The idea that women is inferior than men has been embeded in our culture, even though there are people out there that believe women are as smart and strong enouh to handle all the things that men do, but this number is just not enough.  Many women has strive their best to be equal as any men out there, and the main element that enable them to slowly change the bais view of the world is through education.  A women with knowledge is a respectable woman, she has the… Continue reading