Ramping up pressure on Iranian women for flouting the mandatory Hijab
The moribund clerical regime has once again ramped up pressure on Iranian women using the pretext...
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Political prisoner Zahra Safaei threatened to death by criminal offenders
Political prisoner Zahra Safaei has received life threats from ordinary prisoners in the Qarchak Prison of...
Bereaved Mother of Two Young Men Slain in SE Iran Fights Injustice
Soheila Shirvani, the bereaved mother of two young men slain in Iranshahr, is seeking justice under...
Iran: NCRI discloses documents on six women wounded in November protests
The Security and Counterterrorism Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) has obtained...
Ramping up pressure on women political prisoners by filing false cases
In order to ramp up pressure on women political prisoners, the Iranian regime's judiciary has summoned...
Eight inmates infected with Covid-19, denied care in Qarchak Prison
Eight inmates infected with Covid-19 have been abandoned without any care in Qarchak Prison. At the...
Private-Sector Nurses, Defrauded Clients, Literacy Movement Teachers Protest
For the last three days (June 6-June 8), women have staged protests in Tehran, Tabriz, and...
The number of coronavirus victims in Iran exceeds 50,000
The number of coronavirus victims in Iran exceeds 50,000. As of Sunday, June 7, more than...
Kurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian contracts the Covid-19
Kurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian has contracted the Covid-19 disease, but the clerical regime’s Intelligence Ministry...
2.5 years after the Kermanshah earthquake, women still live in trailers
More than 2.5 years after the Kermanshah earthquake, a large number of people still live in...
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...
Women, Resistance, Freedom: The Unbroken Lineage from Camp Ashraf to Iran’s Gen-Z Revolution
When an early morning raid struck Camp Ashraf at 5:00 AM on September 1, 2013, the goal of Iran’s clerical...
Working to Survive: Iranian Women Between Poverty, Exhaustion, and Lack of Labor Protection
For many Iranian Women, losing a job or failing to find sustainable employment is not just about being unemployed; it...
Victims at Home: Report on 15 Women Killed in One Month
Misogynistic laws lie at the root of violence against women in Iran Victims at Home: Report on 15 Women Killed...
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.