Sufi women, Elham Ahmadi, Sedigheh Safabakht to serve 5 years in jail
Sufi women, Elham Ahmadi and Sedigheh Safabakht, have been sentenced each to five years in jail...
Women's News
Child widows, a major catastrophe in Iran
Child widows constitute a great catastrophe in Iran, said Hassan Moussavi Chelak, head of the Social...
Women participated in protests of defrauded investors, hospital staff
Women participated in protest gatherings of defrauded investors and hospital personnel in Tehran, Rasht (northern Iran),...
Laleh Park Mothers: Executions, terror are signs of regime’s weakness
Laleh Park Mothers once again reiterated their demands for abolition of the death penalty and freedom...
Women political prisoners in Evin condole Moradi family
Women political prisoners Atena Daemi, Golrokh Iraee and Maryam Akbari Monfared offered their condolences to the...
Iranian women actively participated in protests in Tehran and Borazjan
Iranian women actively participated in protests taking place in Tehran, Mashhad, and Borazjan. On Sunday, July...
Domestic violence against women in Iran saw a 20% rise last year
Domestic violence against women in Iran saw a 20% rise last year in the period spanning from...
Human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh indicted with new charges
Human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been indicted with new charges, Reza Khandan, husband of the...
Azad University’s new management gears up restrictions on women
Azad University’s new management is concentrating on so-called "moral" issues in many of the university programs...
Provision of Security for Women bill stalled 13 years by parliament
Provision of Security for Women bill has been stalled in the hands of the Judiciary and...
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...
A Report to CSW70: Gender-Based Discrimination Under Iranian Law
Structural Inequality and State-Sanctioned Oppression of Women Gender-Based Discrimination Under Iranian Law” is the title of the NCRI Women’s Committee’s...
Annual Report 2026: From Protests, to Uprising, and the Role of Iranian Women
On the eve of International Women’s Day 2026, the NCRI Women’s Committee presents its Annual Report 2026, offering a recap...
JINNEWS: An Account of Women Prisoners’ Resistance in Iran Amid Repression and Discrimination
Turkey’s JINNEWS, one of the region’s well-known news outlets covering women’s issues and human rights, published a report on June...
Iran’s Escalating Water Crisis: Energy Imbalance, Popular Protests, and the Role of Women
The Iran water crisis has transcended a mere climatic challenge, evolving into a structural catastrophe marked by severe ecosystem destruction...
Day 2 of Free Iran 2026: Broad Support for 10-point plan and Criticism of Western Appeasement
On Sunday, June 21, 2026, the second day of the “Free Iran 2026 – Supporting the Democratic Alternative” conference was...
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.