Massoud Ghaderi Pasha, director general of the Coroner’s Office in Tehran Province, announced Sunday, April 17, 2017, that six female workers had died in 2016 due to lack of safety measures at the work place.
Continued Pressure on Female Political Prisoners in Iran In the 120th week of the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign, political prisoners across 56 prisons in Iran once again...
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Maryam Derisi, a female political prisoner from Kazerun, has once again been sentenced to prison amid the Iranian regime’s ongoing judicial and security crackdown on dissidents. In a...
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Azam and Akram Daneshvarkar, two sisters of executed political prisoner Akbar Daneshvarkar, were transferred from Qarchak Prison in Varamin to an undisclosed location on Thursday, May 7. Since...
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On the evening of Tuesday, May 5, 2026, the Arghavan commercialcomplex in Shahriar County, west of Tehran, became a death trap for dozens of citizens who found themselves...
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More than three months after the January 2026 Protests, a wave of Iranian citizens remains trapped in a judicial "black hole," held in prolonged detention without clear charges...
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Structural Inequality and State-Sanctioned Oppression of Women Gender-Based Discrimination Under Iranian Law” is the title of the NCRI Women’s Committee’s...
On the eve of International Women’s Day 2026, the NCRI Women’s Committee presents its Annual Report 2026, offering a recap...
Names That Must Not Be Forgotten Iranian women played a central and courageous role in the January 2026 uprising, standing...
On the evening of Tuesday, May 5, 2026, the Arghavan commercialcomplex in Shahriar County, west of Tehran, became a death...
In the blood-stained annals of the January 2026 uprising, Iran’s healthcare professionals stood witness to a stark battle between human...
Through the deeply moving story of the Ebrahimpour family, Massoumeh Raouf delivers, with Ô Mères d’Iran (O Mothers of Iran),...
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.
