Rita Levi-Montalcini: The Nobel-Winning Neuroscientist Who Defied War, Gender Bias, and Age
Rita Levi-Montalcini, a pioneering Italian neurologist and Nobel Prize winner, is one of the most inspiring...
Women in History
Carrie Chapman Catt: Pioneering Leader of Women’s Suffrage and Social Change
Carrie Chapman Catt was a visionary American suffragist and activist whose leadership fundamentally shaped the women’s...
Katherine Wilson Sheppard: The Trailblazing Suffragist Who Won the Vote for New Zealand Women
Katherine Wilson Sheppard—better known as Kate Sheppard—stands as one of the most influential women in world...
Rosa Parks: The Courageous Civil Rights Icon Who Changed America
Rosa Parks, known as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement,” was a pivotal figure in...
Breaking Barriers: The Trailblazing Life of Nancy Astor, the First Woman in British Parliament
Nancy Astor Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor (19 May 1879 – 2 May 1964) made history as...
Trailblazer of Latin American Poetry: The Enduring Legacy of Gabriela Mistral
Gabriela Mistral, born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga in 1889 in the Elqui Valley of Chile, was a...
Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya: A Trailblazer in Mathematics and Women’s Rights
Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (15 January 1850- 10 February 1891) was a pioneering Russian mathematician whose groundbreaking...
Sabine Zlatin: The Courageous Guardian of Izieu’s Children
Sabine Zlatin (13 January 1907 – 21 September 1996), born Sabine Chwast in Warsaw, Poland, was...
Edith Green: A Trailblazing Force in U.S. Education and Politics
Edith Green was a pioneering American politician whose relentless advocacy for education reform and women’s rights...
Anne Jemima Clough: Pioneer of Women’s Higher Education in Britain
Anne Jemima Clough (20 January 1820 – 27 February 1892) was a trailblazing British educator and reformer...
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.