Mastoureh Ardalan: A Woman’s Voice in Nineteenth-Century Kurdish Historiography
Mastoureh Ardalan(c. 1805–1848) stands as one of the most remarkable intellectual figures of nineteenth-century Iran and...
Famous Women
Fakhr al-Dowleh: The Philanthropic Lady Who Founded Tehran’s Taxi System
Fakhr al-Dowleh, a respected lady of the Qajar and Pahlavi era and mother of former Iranian...
Fatemeh Khatun: From Captivity to the Heart of Mongol Power — The Story of an Influential Iranian Woman
In the mid-thirteenth century, when the Mongol Empire ruled over vast stretches of Asia and Iran,...
Bibi Maryam Bakhtiari: The Brave Woman of the Constitutional Revolution and Iran’s Freedom Fighter
Bibi Maryam Bakhtiari (born 1874, died 1937) was one of the pioneering and influential women in...
Touba Azmudeh: Founder of the First Girls’ High School in Iran
Touba Azmudeh (born 1878 – died September 23, 1936) is remembered as one of the most...
Samineh Baghcheban: Pioneer of Deaf Education and Children’s Literature
The passing of Samineh Baghcheban, writer, translator, and one of the founders of deaf education in...
Zandokht Shirazi: The Radical Voice of Iranian Women in the Early 20th Century
Zandokht Shirazi, born Fakhr ol-Molouk (1909–1952), was one of the earliest Iranian journalists, poets, and women’s...
Constitutional Revolution: Telli, A Brave Woman Among the Fighters
In the tumultuous history of Tabriz and the Constitutional Revolution, there are names of women whose...
The First Women Pilots in Iran – Pioneers Who Took to the Skies
The history of Iran is filled with remarkable women who broke barriers, challenged restrictive traditions, and...
Fatemeh Dorrat ol-Ma’ali: Pioneer of Girls’ Education and Prominent Social Activist in Qajar Iran
Fatemeh Dorrat ol-Ma’ali (born 1877) was a distinguished and influential woman of the Qajar era who...
Sign our Statement to Halt the Death Sentence of 25-Year-Old Political Prisoner Arghavan Fallahi
Statement Calling for Immediate Action to Halt the Death Sentence of 25-Year-Old Political Prisoner Arghavan Fallahi We express our profound...
The Ineffectiveness of Population Policies in Iran: Economy, Aging, and the Overlooked Rights of Women
Abstract: A compilation of official data, media reports, and disclosures published in April, May, and June 2026 demonstrates that Iran...
Crushed by Design: Structural Crises and Inequitable Policies Push Female-Headed Households to the Edge
Introduction Life for the Iranian people under the religious dictatorship is fraught with hardship and peril from every perspective. Whether...
Sexual Apartheid in the Laws of Iran’s Clerical Regime – part 1
Sexual Apartheid in the Medieval Laws of the Clerical Regime At a time when the world is moving toward the...
Women’s Sports Clubs Sealed amid the Unemployment Crisis in Iran
Four women's sports clubs in the city of Yazd have been sealed off by the Public Places Supervision Police. This...
The 1988 Massacre: The Greatest Unpunished Crime Against Humanity
The Glorious Epic of Resistance by PMOI Women in the Anti-Human Clerical Regime's Prisons The massacre of over 30,000 political...
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.