Students, creditors and other strata continue protests across Iran
Over the past few days, various groups of people, including students and defrauded creditors, continued their...
Women's News
Masoumeh Askari, retired teacher sentenced to 5 years in prison
Masoumeh Askari, a retired teacher who was imprisoned in the women's ward of Evin Prison, was...
Food poisoning of 204 girls and boys at school in Esfarayen
204 girl and boy students at a boarding school in Esfarayen were hospitalized for food poisoning....
Marriage of girls in one Iranian province escalates 900 in just one year
A women's affairs adviser in Iran announced that the rate of marriage of girls between the...
Retirees in Tehran and Isfahan hold protests to demand their rights
Retirees gathered in the cities of Tehran and Isfahan on Sunday to protest against the regime’s...
Saba Kord Afshari and Yasaman Aryani expose sham amnesty
After being released from Evin Prison, two female political prisoners, Saba Kord Afshari and Yasaman Aryani...
Iranian women’s soccer team not allowed to play at Azadi Stadium
The Iranian women's soccer team was deprived of competing at the Azadi Stadium, and their match...
Plundered clients of Sekkey-e Samen get arrested in protest gathering
The protest gathering of the plundered clients of Sekkey-e Samen financial company in Tehran led to...
Mahin Akbari, former political prisoner, jailed in Lakan Prison, Rasht
A former political prisoner, Mahin Akbari, has been recently arrested and transferred to the Lakan Prison...
Women widely participated in recent protests in cities across Iran
News of protests on Tuesday and Wednesday, February 19 and 20, 2019, indicate that women widely...
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.