Farahnaz Zarfchi
Farahnaz Zarfchi was born in 1963 to a family that supported the People’s Mojahedin of Iran...
The Fallen for Freedom
Akram Yazdi Ostovar
Akram Yazdi Ostovar was born in 1960 to a hardworking family in Qazvin. Under the Shah,...
Azam Attarzadeh
Friends of Azam Attarzadeh know her as Shahrbanoo. She was born in 1961 in Boroujerd, in...
Zahra Ahmadizadeh
Zahra Ahmadizadeh was born in Abadan, southwestern Iran, in 1955 to a religious, middle-class family. Her...
Elaheh Orouji
Elaheh Orouji, 25, was born to a prosperous family. She was a student of architectural engineering...
Fahimeh Tahsili
Fahimeh Tahsili was born on September 4, 1957. She dedicated her intelligence, education, and future to...
Parvaneh Peivastegan
Parvaneh Peivastegan was born on April 27, 1962, in Tehran. She experienced a difficult childhood, and...
Giti Sadegh
Giti Sadegh was introduced to the MEK when she was very young: she was a relative...
Parvin Behdarvand
Parvin Behdarvand, a nurse from the southern city of Masjed Soleiman, is among the thousands of...
Gity Naziri
My sister Gity was 24 when she was executed in Iran The second and third sequel...
A Report to CSW70: Gender-Based Discrimination Under Iranian Law
Structural Inequality and State-Sanctioned Oppression of Women Gender-Based Discrimination Under Iranian Law” is the title of the NCRI Women’s Committee’s...
Annual Report 2026: From Protests, to Uprising, and the Role of Iranian Women
On the eve of International Women’s Day 2026, the NCRI Women’s Committee presents its Annual Report 2026, offering a recap...
Iranian Women Who Lost Their Lives in Iran’s January 2026 Uprising
Names That Must Not Be Forgotten Iranian women played a central and courageous role in the January 2026 uprising, standing...
O Mothers of Iran: A Manifesto of Unyielding Resistance to Misogynistic Barbarity
Through the deeply moving story of the Ebrahimpour family, Massoumeh Raouf delivers, with Ô Mères d’Iran (O Mothers of Iran),...
Iran Regime Arrests Women and Girls: Torture and Detention without Legal Clarity
Amid a growing wave of arrests targeting women and teenage girls across multiple Iranian cities, numerous reports have emerged detailing...
Wave of Arrests Targeting Women and Minors Amid Wartime in Iran
Following an intensified crackdown amid the recent war, multiple reports indicate a sharp rise in arrests across Iran, with women...
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.