Motocross champion among Baha’i women arrested across Iran
Shahrzad Nazifi, a motocross champion, was arrested on Sunday, November 18, 2018, by security forces in...
Women's News
Suicide takes lives of seven women in Tehran, north and western Iran
Seven women committed suicide in Tehran, and in cities of Fereydoon Kenar, Urmia, Sardasht, Oshnavieh and...
Women widely participate in workers protest in Tehran
On the day of the adoption of the labor law, hundreds of Iranian workers marched in...
Women actively and widely took part in protests
Women actively and widely participated in the protests by various social sectors in recent days. On...
Political prisoner Atena Daemi refuses to appear before prosecutor
Reacting to an oral short notice by prison authorities, political prisoner Atena Daemi refused to appear...
Baha’i women arrested or imprisoned for their faith
Five Baha’i women were recently arrested or imprisoned for their faith in the cities of Mashhad,...
Women join protests of sugarcane workers of Haft Tappeh Factory
The strike and demonstrations of sugarcane workers of Haft Tappeh Industrial Complex in Shush, saw the...
Women carpet weavers receive only 380,000 toumans a month
Women carpet weavers in the surrounding villages of Kerman weave expensive carpets with more than 18...
United Nations adopts 65th resolution censuring rights abuses in Iran
The Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly adopted its 65th resolution on Thursday, November...
Golrokh Iraee reaches out in open letter to save her husband
Political prisoner Golrokh Iraee reached out in an open letter to protest continued denial of medical...
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.