NCRI Women’s Committee calls for the release of dozens of women arrested in the dervishes’ gathering in Tehran
Seventy of the women arrested during the dervishes’ gathering in Golestan Haftom Ave. in Tehran, have...
Statements
Call for urgent action to free women arrested in Iran
Maryam Rajavi to the Council of Europe: Compel the Iranian regime to stop repression of women...
NCRI Women’s Committee urges censure of the arrests of Iranian women for shunning the veil and calls for urgent action for their unconditional release
Thursday, February 1, 2018, the IRGC-backed FARS news agency announced that the regime’s repressive forces had...
NCRI Women’s Committee calls for freedom of Atena Daemi and Golrokh Iraee
Political prisoners Atena Daemi and Golrokh Ibrahimi Iraee were brutally beaten up and subsequently transferred to...
Iran: Suicide catastrophe in Iran, the ominous outcome of the clerical dictatorship
Shocking suicide of mother along with her infant and young daughter The increasing trend of suicide...
Iran: Flogging sentence for a young Kurdish female student
The Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran condemns the flogging sentence issued...
The NCRI Women’s Committee condemns the assassinations of two Syrian activist women in Istanbul
The Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran condemns the cowardly murder of...
Iran: Regime officials admit their antagonism towards gender equality
Following the adoption of UNESCO's Education 2030 Framework for Action, which underlines priority of gender equality...
The NCRI Women’s Committee condemns the Iranian regime’s banning of female athletes’ competition on the bogus charge of “failing to observe Islamic codes”
In an appalling measure, the clerical regime deprived five female Iranian athletes for one year from...
NCRI Women’s Committee calls for urgent action to free activist mother, Shahnaz Akmali
The Women's Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran issued a call on international...
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...
Widows in Iran: An Analysis of Legal Challenges and the Structure of Discrimination
Introduction: In the political and legal structure governing Iran, misogyny and gender discrimination have been institutionalized as a fundamental principle,...
Iranian Women Trapped by War, Poverty, and Domestic Abuse
The war and intensifying economic crises in recent months have exerted the greatest and most direct pressure on Iranian women,...
JINNEWS: An Account of Women Prisoners’ Resistance in Iran Amid Repression and Discrimination
Turkey’s JINNEWS, one of the region’s well-known news outlets covering women’s issues and human rights, published a report on June...
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.