In 1942, Dr. Fatemeh Sayyah became Iran’s First Female Professor when she was awarded the chair of Russian Language and Comparative Literature at Tehran University.
A woman detained during January 2026 nationwide protests, who spent approximately 40 days in Ward 11 of Qarchak Prison in Varamin, has provided a detailed account of the...
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In the 129th week of the No to Execution Tuesdays campaign, political prisoners in 58 prisons across Iran staged a hunger strike on Tuesday, July 14, 2026, once...
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The war and intensifying economic crises in recent months have exerted the greatest and most direct pressure on Iranian women, placing them on the frontline of vulnerability as...
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The Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) reported today that on July 12, prison authorities in Iran launched a repressive raid on the women's...
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The transfer of 60 inmates to the overcrowded women’s ward of Evin Prison sparked protests and clashes with prison guards on Sunday, July 12, 2026. Sixty female prisoners...
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Statement Calling for Immediate Action to Halt the Death Sentence of 25-Year-Old Political Prisoner Arghavan Fallahi We express our profound...
Abstract: A compilation of official data, media reports, and disclosures published in April, May, and June 2026 demonstrates that Iran...
Introduction Life for the Iranian people under the religious dictatorship is fraught with hardship and peril from every perspective. Whether...
The war and intensifying economic crises in recent months have exerted the greatest and most direct pressure on Iranian women,...
Turkey’s JINNEWS, one of the region’s well-known news outlets covering women’s issues and human rights, published a report on June...
The Iran water crisis has transcended a mere climatic challenge, evolving into a structural catastrophe marked by severe ecosystem destruction...
We work extensively with Iranian women outside the country and maintain a permanent contact with women inside Iran. The Women’s Committee is actively involved with many women’s rights organizations and NGO’s and the Iranian diaspora.
The committee is a major source of much of the information received from inside Iran with regards to women. Attending UN Human Rights Council meetings and other international or regional conferences on women’s issues and engaging in a relentless battle against the Iranian regime’s misogyny are part of the activities of members and associates of the committee.
