Dr. Arezoo Ghobadi hanged herself on a tree in Aveer Park in Sanandaj, capital of Kurdistan Province of Iran, on October 19, 2017.
There is no information about the reason for her suicide.
The alarming rate of suicide amongst women in Iran indicates their defenselessness vis a vis the misogyny institutionalized in the country’s laws and policies
Javiera Carrera—born Francisca Xaviera Eudoxia Rudecinda Carmen de los Dolores de la Carrera y Verdugo on March 1, 1781—stands tall in history as one of the most influential...
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In Hot Air, Hollie McKay interviews Aziz Rezaee, a shining star in the struggle of Iranian women under both the Shah and the clerical regimes. Excerpts of this...
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Dominique Attias, French Human Rights Lawyer Honors Iranian Women’s Resistance: “Say No to Executions in Iran” On April 11, at a conference held at the town hall of...
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In the summer of 1988, thousands of political prisoners were secretly executed in prisons across Iran. Among the victims of the 1988 massacre were countless young, courageous women...
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Women prisoners in Zahedan Prison join the 64th week of the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign, as families of political prisoners on death row stage a protest in...
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In a powerful statement of unity, 651 prominent women leaders, including former heads of state, ministers, jurists, and human rights...
On the eve of International Women’s Day, the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) publishes...
As International Women’s Day approaches, the NCRI Women’s Committee proudly presents its Annual Report 2025, offering a comprehensive review of...
In Hot Air, Hollie McKay interviews Aziz Rezaee, a shining star in the struggle of Iranian women under both the...
In the summer of 1988, thousands of political prisoners were secretly executed in prisons across Iran. Among the victims of...
In today’s Iran, poverty has pushed countless women—especially heads of households and students—into desperate measures to survive. One of the...
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.
