Baha’i women once again arrested and deprived from education
Two Baha’i women, Kimia Mostafavi and Kiana Rezvani, have been arrested in Kerman. Their whereabouts are...
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Women’s participation in Iran’s job market only 16.8% in 2017
Women's participation rate in Iran’s job market in 2017 was only 16.8%. This is very low...
Farangis Mazloumi under daily pressure for son’s imprisonment, torture
Farangis Mazloumi, mother of political prisoner Soheil Arabi, is under severe pressure because of her son’s...
UNSRs condemn denial of treatment to women prisoners in Iran
Six UN Human Rights Special Rapporteurs (UNSRs) called on Iran to urgently provide Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and...
Leila Rasouli, a young paramedic commits suicide after finding no job
Leila Rasouli, a young paramedic who was unable to find a job, ended her life. According...
Nazanin Zaghari pressured to spy on UK in return for freedom
Nazanin Zaghari a British-Iranian dual-citizen held by the Iranian regime, started a hunger strike after interrogators...
Will continue to stand by the Iranian people – three female detainees
Three female protesters detained in the women's ward of the Evin prison --Saba Kord Afshar, Yasamin...
Hardworking teachers in Yazd demand rights, criticize mismanagement
A group of hardworking teachers of support schools in Yazd Province held a protest rally on...
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,...
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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.