Video: Shirin Ebadi on Workers’ Rights

A few weeks prior to International Workers’ Day, on 19 April 2011, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi summarized the situation and challenges facing workers in Iran. She describes the government’s combative stance against unions, illustrated by the imprisonment of union leader Mansour Osanloo. She also addresses how Iran’s economic crisis and high priced commodities have increased hardship on workers who earn low wages.

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