Pauline Kael: Influential Film Critic Who Revolutionized Movie Reviews
Pauline Kael, born on June 19, 1919, in Petaluma, California, was one of the most influential...
Women in History
Wilma Glodean Rudolph: From Polio Survivor to Olympic Champion
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Joan Elisabeth Lowther Murray: The Unsung WWII Hero and Codebreaker
Joan Elisabeth Lowther Murray (24 June 1917 – 4 September 1996), better known as Joan Clarke,...
Julia Clifford Lathrop: Trailblazing Advocate for Child Welfare
Julia Clifford Lathrop (June 29, 1858 – April 15, 1932) was a pioneering American social reformer...
Helen Adams Keller: A Trailblazer in Overcoming Disability
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Pearl S. Buck: Nobel Prize-Winning Author and Humanitarian
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Anna Andreyevna Gorenko: The Voice of Russian Poetry
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Grandma Moses: The Self-Taught Folk Artist Who Captivated America
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Liudmyla Mykhailivna Pavlychenko: The Fearless Ukrainian Sniper Who Became “Lady Death”
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Simone Veil: Trailblazing French Leader and Champion of Women’s Rights
Simone Veil (13 July 1927 – 30 June 2017) was a pioneering French politician, Holocaust survivor,...
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.