Marina Raskova: The Trailblazing Soviet Aviator and Founder of the All-Female Air Regiments
Marina Raskova was a pioneering Soviet aviator and navigator, best known for founding the world’s first...
Women in History
Ellen Church: The Sky’s First Stewardess and Trailblazing Nurse
Ellen Church (September 22, 1904 – August 22, 1965) was a pioneering American nurse and aviation...
Mapping Her Legacy: The Trailblazing Life of Phyllis Isobella Pearsall, Creator of the A–Z
Phyllis Isobella Pearsall (25 September 1906 – 28 August 1996) was a pioneering British cartographer, entrepreneur,...
Helen Foster Snow: American Journalist, Author, and Friend of China’s Revolution
Helen Foster Snow (September 21, 1907 – January 11, 1997) was a trailblazing American journalist, author,...
Lorna Wing: The Psychiatrist Who Transformed Autism Understanding
Dr. Lorna Wing (October 7, 1928 –June 6, 2014) was a pioneering British psychiatrist, author, and...
Fannie Lou Hamer: Voice of the Voiceless and Icon of the Civil Rights Movement
Fannie Lou Hamer (October 6, 1917 – March 14, 1977) was a fearless American voting rights...
Anne Henrietta Martin: Suffrage Leader, Historian, and Trailblazing Senate Candidate
Anne Henrietta Martin (September 30, 1875 – April 15, 1951) was a pioneering American suffragist, historian,...
Mary Elisabeth Dreier: Champion of Labor Reform and Women’s Rights in Progressive Era America
Mary Elisabeth Dreier (September 26, 1875 - August 15, 1963) was a leading American social reformer,...
Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan: Pioneer of Spacewalks and Ocean Depths
Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan “Kathy” (born October 3, 1951) stands as a towering figure in science and exploration. As...
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva: Voice of Passion and Exile in Russian Poetry
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (October 8, 1892 –August 31, 1941) was a seminal Russian poet, playwright, and...
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...
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...
Iran’s Escalating Water Crisis: Energy Imbalance, Popular Protests, and the Role of Women
The Iran water crisis has transcended a mere climatic challenge, evolving into a structural catastrophe marked by severe ecosystem destruction...
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.