Ada Lovelace: The Visionary Mathematician Who Imagined the First Computer Program
Ada Lovelace is celebrated today as the world’s first computer programmer, a woman whose imagination outpaced...
Women in History
Frances Wright: The Radical Voice of Freedom and Equality
Frances Wright was a Scottish-born writer, feminist, and social reformer whose bold ideas challenged nearly every...
Dorothy Hodgkin: The Crystallographer Who Unlocked the Architecture of Life
Dorothy Hodgkin (Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin) stands as one of the most influential scientists of the 20th...
Mary McLeod Bethune: The Educator Who Empowered a Generation
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Mary Wollstonecraft: Pioneer of Women’s Rights and Revolutionary Thinker
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Susan B. Anthony: The Unyielding Voice of America’s Women’s Rights Movement
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Angela Merkel: The Pragmatic Powerhouse Who Redefined Germany’s Leadership
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Joan Baez: The Voice of Conscience and the Queen of Folk Music
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: The Astronomer Who Unlocked the Secrets of the Stars
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Édith Piaf: The Soulful Voice of France
Édith Piaf (December 19, 1915 – October 10, 1963) remains one of the most iconic voices...
The Gendered Dimensions of the Water Crisis in Iran: Impacts on Women’s Health, Livelihoods, and Security
How Iranian Women Shoulder the Heavy Burden of a Deepening Crisis Download Italian Version The water crisis in Iran has...
The Failure of Iran’s Population Growth Law Despite the Repression of Women
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Widowed Women in Iran: Main Problems and Challenges
Widowed Women in Iran, Alone and Oppressed in the Shadow of Discrimination In the Iranian legal system, where gender-based discrimination...
Safe Shelters: The Deep Gap Between the Reality of Domestic Violence and Support Services for Abused Women in Iran
Safe Shelters in Iran are temporary passages that, although seemingly symbols of refuge and support, in practice reflect the inefficiency...
The Devastated Economy and Explosive Poverty: Key Drivers of Domestic Violence
Explosive poverty and the collapse of people’s livelihoods—resulting from an exhausted and devastated economy caused by anti-people policies, plundering, and...
Iranian Children, Victims of Poverty, Discrimination, and a Child-Killing Regime
World Children’s Day is meant to be a moment to reflect on the future of children, the very individuals who...
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.