Her body was buried in her hometown of Shazand.
Shokoufeh worked at a photography studio in Arak, where her work captured and documented the beauty of everyday life among the people.
Samaneh Mirzaei, a resident of Tehran, was killed on January 9, 2026, during popular protests on Navab Street, after being directly shot by the regime’s criminal security forces....
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On January 8, 2026, during the nationwide protests in Malekshahr, Isfahan, Mona Hosseini was shot by the regime’s criminal security forces. A live round struck her in the...
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Following an intensified crackdown amid the recent war, multiple reports indicate a sharp rise in arrests across Iran, with women and minors disproportionately affected. Authorities are reportedly detaining...
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Prison memoirs of Azam Haji-Heydari from the book The Price of Being Human – Part One Beginning with this issue, we turn to the prison memoirs published in...
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Maryam Akbari Monfared has been released after 17 years in prison, including an additional 3 years added to her sentence. A mother of three young children, she was...
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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...
Among those killed during the January 2026 uprising in Iran there are mothers whose names stand out—women who took to...
A letter from Vahid Bani Amerian to Aziz, the mother of the martyred Rezaeis Ms. Zahra Norouzi, who is known...
Ferdows Mahboubi (Mother Mosanna), one of the steadfast supporters of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), passed away in...
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.
