Iran: Women’s rights abused for their faith
Three women were summoned to court and transferred to the Prison of Ahwaz on Sunday, May...
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Iran: Women join protests in Tehran, Ahvaz, Mashhad, Hashtgerd
A group of families and survivors of victims of a Tehran-Yasuj plane crash gathered in front...
Iran: Quake-stricken women stage protest in Yasuj
The residents of cities and villages hit by earthquake in Kohgiloyeh and Boyerahmad Province (southwest of...
Iran: Women protest destruction of nature in Shahrood
A group of men and women from Shahrood formed a human chain to protest against the...
Iran: Golrokh Iraee, Atena Daemi victoriously returned to Evin
After three months of resistance and hunger strike, political prisoners Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee and Atena Daemi...
Iran: Pharmacy denies medicine to mal-veiled woman, ill with cancer
A Tehran pharmacy refused to sell medicien to a woman suffering from cancer under the pretext...
Aliyeh Eghdam-Doost arrested during nationwide teachers’ protests
Aliyeh Eghdam-Doost was transferred to Evin’s court in the morning of May 11, 2018, with cuffed...
Iran: Plundered women and female students protest in Tehran, Orumiyeh
A group of plundered depositors of Ayandeh Bank, including a good number of women, held a...
Iran: An elementary girl’s hair is cut at school for mal-veiling
The superintendent of an elementary school in Abadan, southwestern Iran, cut a girl’s hair for not...
Iran: Women actively participated in teachers’ nationwide protests
Iran’s teachers, men and women, held protests in at least 32 cities across the country outside...
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...
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...
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.