Iranian actress, Azar Mehdi Gholikhani, known as Soraya Hekmat, 62, passed away in poverty. She passed away on April 8, 2016, after suffering seizures and blood coagulation in her brain.
In an interview in July 2014 with the state-run ISNA news agency she said she was unable to pay the costs of her house and she would move to a tent, adding that she could not even afford to have her teeth fixed.
On Wednesday morning, September 24, 2025, Mahnaz Dehghani, a woman prisoner convicted of murder, was executed in Adelabad Prison in Shiraz. Despite the execution being carried out, neither...
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In a new and lasting report, Professor Rita Süssmuth, who served for ten years as the President of the German Federal Parliament, takes readers on a powerful journey...
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In an impressive demonstration of solidarity with the Iranian Resistance and opposition to the clerical regime’s president attending the UN General Assembly, thousands of Iranians gathered outside United...
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Tuesday, September 23, 2025, marked the 87th consecutive week of the No to Execution Tuesdays’ campaign in 52 prisons across Iran. Families of death-row political prisoners rally behind...
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In the pantheon of space exploration, Helen Patricia Sharman holds a historic and inspiring place. As the first British astronaut and the first woman to visit the Mir...
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A Glance at a Costly and Ineffective Policy The “Youthful Population Law” in Iran vs. Women’s Human Rights Following a...
Widowed Women in Iran, Alone and Oppressed in the Shadow of Discrimination In the Iranian legal system, where gender-based discrimination...
Marking the International Labor Day 2025 Female workers in Iran, with calloused hands and exhausted bodies, carry the burden of...
In an impressive demonstration of solidarity with the Iranian Resistance and opposition to the clerical regime’s president attending the UN...
TEHRAN – September dawn.In the narrow lanes of a south-Tehran slum, eleven-year-old Zahra clutches a worn schoolbag and pauses before...
The 2022 Uprising: Echo of Generations Who Refused to Yield Three years ago, streets from Tehran to Ahwaz, and from...
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.
