Iran: Golrokh Iraee in bad physical conditions after 50 days
After 50 days of hunger strike, physical condition of political prisoners Golrokh Iraee has badly deteriorated...
Women's News
Iran: 28 nurses brutalized in one year
Twenty-eight nurses were physically beaten up last year in Iran. Mohammad Sharifi, Vice-President of the Nursing...
Iran: Suffering mother of Soheil Arabi spent turn of the year outside prison
Mrs. Farangis Mazloumi, mother of the political prisoner Soheil Arabi, set up her New Year arrangement...
Iran: Women protest government officials in Sarpol-e Zahab
Women and men residing in Sarpol-e Zahab, the center of earthquake in western Iran, protested a...
Iran: Woman prevented from singing at a concert
A young woman singing for a traditional Persian music group was prevented from singing on March...
Iran: Acid attack on a young woman in Tabriz
A young woman was splashed with acid while on the road in Tabriz, Deputy Governor of...
Iran: UN experts alarmed by reports mistreatment of women activists
Four UN experts issued a statement in Geneva, expressing alarm at the condition of human rights...
Iran: A woman, her two sons, arrested in Ahvaz
The families residing in the Zaytoon neighborhood of Ahvaz were attacked by agents of the Intelligence...
Iran: Parisa Rafii remains in detention for not cooperating
Despite completion of preliminary investigations and interrogations of student activist Parisa Rafii in Evin Prison, she...
Iran: Fresh warnings against women’s bicycling
Women’s bicycling in public has been declared as “unpermissible” and even “unlawful” by edicts of religious...
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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.