Women actively participated in protests in Tehran, Karaj, Rasht and Bam
Iranian women actively participated in the recent protests of various sectors of society in the...
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Female and mounted police used to prevent women from entering stadium
Female police and mounted police officers were deployed to prevent women from entering the Azadi...
Girls with autism in Iran have no schools
Girls with autism in Iran have no schools, declared an official of the Iranian Autism...
Zeinab Sekaanvand hanged in the Central Prison of Urmia
Zeinab Sekaanvand was hanged a few hours ago in the Central Prison of Urmia, as...
Zeinab Sekaanvand due to be executed on October 2, Amnesty warns
Amnesty International has issued a statement on October 1, 2018, warning that only hours are left...
Sotoudeh Fazeli illegally detained in Evin Prison despite old age
Political prisoner Sotoudeh Fazeli is being detained in Evin prison despite old age, and the...
Arrests of women continue in Iran as a sign of intensifying crackdown
Arrests of women continue in Iran. Afsaneh Khorsandi and Maryam Azad were arrested on Wednesday,...
Charging tuition main factor contributing to student dropouts
Charging tuition is the most important factor contributing to student dropouts in Iran. At least...
Number of illiterates has increased from 9.5 to 11 million in Iran
The number of illiterates in Iran has reached 11 million who make up some 13...
Mehrnaz Haghighi, MD, taken to jail to serve her sentence
Mehrnaz Haghighi, 49 and a medical doctor from Bandar Abbas, was transferred Saturday, September 22,...
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.