Mehri Hajinejad: Moments of Arrest and Transfer to Evin Prison
From the memoir “The Last Laughter of Leila” by Mehri Hajinejad Mehri Hajinejad was a teenage...
Heroines in Chain
Face to Face with the Beast (24)
From the prison memoir by Hengameh Haj Hassan – Final Part 24 In the final part...
Face to Face with the Beast (23)
From the prison memoir by Hengameh Haj Hassan – Part 23 In the previous installment of...
Face to Face with the Beast (22)
From the memoir by Hengameh Haj Hassan – Part 22 In this part of her memoir,...
Face to Face with the Beast (21)
From the memoir by Hengameh Haj Hassan In this part of Hengameh Haj Hassan’s prison memoirs...
Face to Face with the Beast (20)
From the memoir by Hengameh Haj Hassan – Part 20 In the previous chapter of the...
Face to Face with the Beast (19)
From the memoir by Hengameh Haj Hassan – Part 19 In the previous four parts of...
Face to Face with the Beast (18)
From the memoirs of Hengameh Haj Hassan - Part 18 ⚠️ Content warning: This section of...
Face to Face with the Beast (17)
From the memoir by Hengameh Haj Hassan – Part 17 In Part 16 of Face to...
Face to Face with the Beast (16)
From the memoir by Hengameh Haj Hassan – Part 16 In part 15 of Face to...
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...
Forough Taghipour and Arghavan Fallahi: We are Generation Z—Anti-Dictatorship, and Opposed to Both the Shah and the Mullahs
Message from PMOI political prisoners Forough Taghipour and Arghavan Fallahi from Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison on the anniversary of the...
Women, Resistance, Freedom: The Unbroken Lineage from Camp Ashraf to Iran’s Gen-Z Revolution
When an early morning raid struck Camp Ashraf at 5:00 AM on September 1, 2013, the goal of Iran’s clerical...
Working to Survive: Iranian Women Between Poverty, Exhaustion, and Lack of Labor Protection
For many Iranian Women, losing a job or failing to find sustainable employment is not just about being unemployed; it...
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.
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