Zahra was shot in the head with a Kalashnikov weapon at Fatemi Square in Tehran and was slain.
Iran has been gripped by widespread popular protests for more than two weeks, with demonstrators across the country demanding an end to repression, dictatorship, and systemic violence. These...
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Uprising Enters 17th Day Across Iran On Tuesday, January 13, 2026, Iran’s nationwide uprising entered its 17th consecutive day, with protests and clashes reported across Tehran and numerous...
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Prison Memoirs of Mehri Hajinejad from “The Last Laughter of Leila”– Part Nineteen In the previous part of the prison memoirs of Mehri Hajinejad, we read about the...
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On Tuesday, January 13, 2026, the nationwide Iran uprising entered its third week, spreading to at least 207 cities and 413 locations across the country. Despite a bloody...
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Graceanna Lewis was a rare 19th-century polymath—an artist, naturalist, educator, and abolitionist whose life bridged science and social justice. Best known for her meticulous illustrations of birds and...
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More than 400 prominent women from across the globe, among them Nobel Prize winners, former presidents and prime ministers, parliamentarians,...
How Iranian Women Shoulder the Heavy Burden of a Deepening Crisis Download Italian Version The water crisis in Iran has...
A Glance at a Costly and Ineffective Policy The “Youthful Population Law” in Iran vs. Women’s Human Rights Following a...
Uprising Enters 17th Day Across Iran On Tuesday, January 13, 2026, Iran’s nationwide uprising entered its 17th consecutive day, with...
On Tuesday, January 13, 2026, the nationwide Iran uprising entered its third week, spreading to at least 207 cities and...
Partial list of women detained during the nationwide uprising The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) announced today, January 12,...
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.
