The recent demonstrations and vocal protests in the streets of Tehran, did not begin with the June 2009 Iranian presidential elections; they began three decades earlier when the newly established Islamic Republic passed new penal codes that deemed a woman's life was worth half of man's in the eyes of the law. The passage of this law launched the journey of 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winning-lawyer Shirin Ebadi in her struggle to defend women's rights and helped to establish her as one of the founders of Iran's pro-democracy reform movement. This paper focuses on the role of Iranian women in the recent one million signatures campaign and the particular contribution of Shirin Ebadi's work both in human rights and women's rights in the struggle for reform in the Islamic Republic. This paper identifies both Ebadi's recent work defending a series of human rights cases as well as her role in campaigning for reforms that led up to the recent "Green Movement." This paper also highlights recent attempts by the Islamic Republic to threaten and harass Ebadi, including making it impossible for her to safely return from Europe to Iran since the June presidential elections.