High participation of women in the protests by various strata
Teachers, defrauded investors and Family Physician Plan caretakers held protests in different Iranian cities with high...
Women's News
Young woman dies at student dormitory due to gas leak
A young woman, Saba Sadeghzadeh lost her life when gas leaked into her student dormitory room...
Child marriages exceed 4,000 in North Khorasan in just one year
More than 4,000 child marriages of girls between 10 to 19 years of age have been...
Sima Entesari brutalized at Qarchak Prison
Sima Entesari, a Sufi woman incarcerated at the notorious Qarchak Prison, was brutalized. On April 15,...
Iranian women’s volleyball team cancelled plan for Asian Cup
Iranian women’s volleyball team cancelled its plans to participate in the Asian Cup tournaments due to...
Amnesty International: Stop crackdown on women’s rights defenders
Amnesty International issued a statement urging the Iranian regime to stop harassing, arresting and imprisoning women’s...
Mullahs’ parliament votes down quota for women MPs
The mullahs’ parliament voted down a proposal to allocate a one-sixth quota of parliamentary seats to...
Child abuse rises 10 percent in one year in North Khorasan Province
Child abuse has risen by 10 percent in North Khorasan Province in the course of one...
Teachers activist Fatemeh Bahmani sentenced and fined
Teachers activist Fatemeh Bahmani and her husband, Mohammad Kurd, are each sentenced to one-year imprisonment and...
Defrauded customers battered by State Security forces
Defrauded customers of Samen Gold in Tehran were battered by the regime’s State Security Forces (SSF)...
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...
Parisa Kamali: “If Today I Stand on the Right Side of History, I Owe It to the PMOI”
Audio message from PMOI political prisoner Parisa Kamali on the anniversary of the founding of the People's Mojahedin Organization of...
Forough Taghipour and Arghavan Fallahi: We are Generation Z—Anti-Dictatorship, and Opposed to Both the Shah and the Mullahs
Message from PMOI political prisoners Forough Taghipour and Arghavan Fallahi from Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison on the anniversary of the...
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...
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.