Social ailments feminized in Iran
Social harms have become feminized in Iran and turned into a tragedy that has swept across...
Women's News
Three female relatives of a victim of 1988 massacre in Iran arrested
Three female relatives of a victim of the 1988 massacre in Iran were detained along with...
Women played an active role in recent protests by various sectors in Iran
Women played an active role in the protests held by various sectors of Iranian society in...
Official says over 3300 women committed suicide in Iran last year
New statistics show more than 3300 women committed suicide in Iran last year. The shocking new...
Nearly 1,000 girls under 18 married in 4 months in Iranian Kurdistan
In the first four months of this (Iranian) year, 970 girls under 18 married in Kurdistan...
Female Baha’i student expelled from university for religious beliefs
Female Baha’I student Romina Asgari was expelled from the Central Tehran Branch of Azad University for...
Nasrin Sotoudeh’s house was attacked by intelligence agents in Iran
Nasrin Sotoudeh’s house was attacked by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence. The news was announced...
Iranian women drug addicts upsurge to 750,000 in new statistics
Iranian women drug addicts have increased to 750,000 in new statistics. The Commander of the State...
Women arrested in Iran uprisings last winter were jailed
Women arrested during the December 2017/January 2018 uprisings in Iran have been transferred to prison after...
Female political prisoner Zainab Jalalian denied medical care for 11 years in Iran prison
Female political prisoner Zainab Jalalian has been denied medical care and access to medical facilities for...
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.