Millicent Fawcett: The Steady Voice That Won Britain’s Women the Vote
Millicent Fawcett (Millicent Garrett Fawcett) (11 June 1847 – 5 August 1929) was one of Britain’s...
Women in History
Kalliroi Parren: Greece’s Trailblazing Feminist Journalist and Architect of the Women’s Movement
Kalliroi Parren (born 1861 — 15 January 1940) is celebrated as one of the founding figures...
Thora Daugaard: Denmark’s Pioneering Feminist, Peace Activist, and Champion of Women’s Rights
Thora Daugaard (22 October 1874 – 28 June 1951) stands as one of Denmark’s most influential...
Ida B. Wells: Trailblazing Journalist, Anti-Lynching Crusader, and Architect of American Civil Rights
Ida B. Wells (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931) stands as one of the most...
Ella Baker: The Quiet Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement
Ella Baker (December 13, 1903 – December 13, 1986) was one of the most influential yet...
Alice Ball: The Trailblazing Chemist Who Revolutionized Leprosy Treatment
Alice Ball: In the early 20th century—an era when both racial and gender barriers limited who...
Maria Montessori: The Visionary Who Redefined Modern Education
Maria Montessori (August 31, 1870 – May 6, 1952) was an Italian physician and educator whose...
Sojourner Truth: The Fearless Abolitionist Who Rewrote the American Story
Sojourner Truth stands as one of the most powerful voices in American history, a formerly enslaved...
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...
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...
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.