Iranian students, workers step up their protests in December
Iranian students in Babol, the staff of the Hospital of Karaj, as well as workers and...
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Asal Mohammadi, Medina Neasi arbitrarily arrested in Tehran and Ahvaz
A female student named Asal Mohammadi in Tehran and a woman named Medina Neasi from Ahvaz,...
Student protests take new peak just days before Student Day in Iran
Several student protests have taken place in universities across Iran on the eve of Iran’s national...
Two female political prisoners illegally summoned for the second time
Two female political prisoners in Evin Prison, Atena Daemi and Golrokh Iraee, have been summoned to...
Maryam Akbari, Golrokh Iraee declare support for protesting workers
Evin political prisoners Maryam Akbari Monfared and Golrokh Iraee sent out an open letter in support...
Dual citizen professor arrested during research trip to Iran
Meimanat Hosseini-Chavoshi, a professor of demography and a dual citizen, was recently arrested in Iran on...
Women’s active participation in protests continues
Women’s active participation in protests have continued in various cities across Iran. On Sunday, December 2,...
Hengameh Vahedian calls on international community to save her father
Hengameh Vahedian, a female student in Mashhad and daughter of rights’ activist, Mr. Abbas Vahedian, addressed...
Woman civil activist sentenced to 1-year in prison in Tehran
A one-year prison sentence was issued for a woman civil activist in Tehran, and two Baha'i...
Sepideh Moradi joins Sufi women’s hunger strike
Sepideh Moradi, one of the Sufi women who is in the women’s ward of Qarchak Prison,...
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.