Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian lawyer, author, human rights activist, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, gave an address at the University of San Diego’s Institute for Peace and Justice in San Diego, California, on February 7, 2008. In her address, Ebadi discussed the feminist movement in Iran and provided examples of the treatment of women and girls there as second-class citizens. The legal age of marriage for boys, she said, was fifteen years old and for girls was thirteen, but with permission from the girl’s father or grandfather through the court system, a girl could be married at an earlier age. As another example, the judicial system disproportionately punished women and girls, as the criminal liability age was designated to be nine for girls and fifteen for boys.