Hardworking teachers in Yazd demand rights, criticize mismanagement
A group of hardworking teachers of support schools in Yazd Province held a protest rally on...
Women's News
Continuous protests by women in cities of Tehran and Mashhad
The continuous protests of different strata, including retirees and plundered credit depositors, continue in various cities...
Political prisoner Nasrin Sotoudeh banned from visits in prison
Payam Derafshan, an attorney to female political prisoner Nasrin Sotoudeh, announced on Monday, January 14, 2019,...
Female students get injured in dormitory and bus accidents
Three female students in Hormozgan suffered burns from the facial area after an oven in the...
Teachers and educators in Iran rising to claim their rights
Teachers and educators in Tehran and Yazd, as well as the defrauded clients of the Caspian...
Women participate in protests in Tehran, Shiraz and Yasuj
Women participate d in the protest held on campus by students of Shiraz University of Medical...
Body of rape victim Zahra Navidpour secretly buried without autopsy
Security forces smuggled out the body of Zahra Navidpour from the coroner’s office and secretly buried...
Women prisoners of conscience object to increasing pressures in prison
Women prisoners of conscience Nasrin Sotoudeh and Azita Rafizadeh objected to the restrictions on telephone calls...
Teachers and educators hold protests in Kermanshah, Isfahan, Ardabil
Teachers and educators in Kermanshah and Ardabil gathered on Thursday, January 10, 2019, in front of...
Sahar Kazemi taken to jail, Sama Nazifi dismissed from college
Sahar Kazemi, a female Kurdish woman from Sanandaj, was transferred to the women’s ward of Sanandaj...
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.