Human rights lawyer Leila Alikarami compled her legal training with Nobel Peace prizewinner Dr Shirin Ebadi at the Defenders for Human Rights Centre, among other things she joined a team of lawyers providing legal training sessions for the One Million Signatures campain for women´s rights. She also defended some of the cases of those campaigners who were arrested. She left Iran for London’s School of Oriental and African Studies and has completed a business law degree in Human Rights, Conflict and Justice.