Helen Arfaii
Helen Arfaii was born on September 23, 1958, to a low income family in Tehran. In...
Fallen Trailblazers of Iran’s Freedom
Azam Shadbakhti
“Our blood is a great testimony to your crimes.” These were the last words and the...
Sakineh Delfi
Sakineh Delfi was born in 1962 in Abadan, Iran. Sakineh Delfi was only 16 when she...
Fatemeh Seyyedi
Fatemeh Seyyedi was from Tabriz, in north-eastern Iran. She was a pharmacy student at Tabriz University....
Iran: Senior PMOI member Marzieh Rezaii dies at age 50
Marzieh Rezaii, a senior member of the PMOI Central Council, passed away early morning on Friday,...
Behnaz Kaviani
Brave and unrelenting Date of birth: 1966 Place of birth: Shaldeh Shaft village, Fouman, northern Iran...
Mansoureh Moslehi
Name: Mansoureh Moslehi Date of birth: April 1963 Place of birth: Tehran Education: First year student...
Fatemeh Mesbah
Fatemeh Mesbah, 13, a symbol of Resistance for freedom Fatemeh Mesbah, executed at the age of...
Maryam Bahmanabadi
Example of steadfastness at any cost Date of Birth: 1960 Place of Birth: Tehran Education: student...
Fatemeh (Razieh) Ayatollahzadeh Shirazi
Symbol of Valor Date of Birth: 1952 Place of Birth: Tehran Education: B.S. in Physics Date...
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.
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.