Women arrested in Iran for their faith or for defending human rights
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Women's News
Teachers In Khuzestan Protest For Their Rights Once Again
Teachers in the cities of Karun and Bavi, in Khuzestan Province, held a protest rally in...
Sufi women urge warden of Qarchak to observe prison rules
The Sufi women who have been recently locked up in the same ward with drug-trafficking inmates...
Labor Activist Parvin Mohammadi Transferred To Kachoui Prison
Ms. Parvin Mohammadi, a labor activist and the vice-president of the Free Union of Workers in...
Yasaman Aryani, Saba Kord Afshari reject false claims by Iran newspaper
Two young female political prisoners, Yasaman Aryani and Saba Kord Afshari sent an open letter from...
Suicide Of Young Women In Iran Indicates Pressure On Women, Girls
The upward trend in the suicide of women indicates the excessive pressures on women and girls...
Midwifery Student Becomes Victim Of Road Accident, Fire At Girls’ School
A female midwifery student from Bonab Azad University named Damon Moludpour, lost her life at the...
1,800 Children Separated From Their Imprisoned Mothers
Iranian regime officials have ordered 1,800 children to be separated from their imprisoned mothers. Mohammad Nefriyeh,...
Woman hanged in Nowshahr is the 87th executed under Rouhani
A young woman was hanged in Nowshahr Prison. A woman only identified as M.A. was hanged...
Presence Of Women In Protests Held By Various Social Strata
Several protests took place by various social strata on Tuesday, January 29, 2019, which included the...
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.