Iran: 21 women get divorce per hour
“21 divorces are registered per hour.” This is the latest statistics provided by the officials of...
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Iran: Plundered women and men would not give in
Women and men plundered by state-backed credit institutes of Caspian and Alborz-e Iranian (Arman) staged their...
Iran: Young women and men stage protest in Mashhad University
Students of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, northeastern Iran, staged a gathering on November 5, 2017 to...
Iran: Rate of women’s suicide rose 66% in five years
The rate of suicide among Iranian women had a 66% rise in five years. An expert...
Iran: Little girls punished for speaking mother tongue in class
Pupils of a girls’ primary school near Ahwaz, southern Iran, were punished for speaking their mother...
Iran: Gohar Eshghi says freedom is coming
On the fifth anniversary of Sattar Beheshti’s death under torture, his mother, Gohar Eshghi announced in...
Iran: Yellow card for female footballers whose hair shows off
Women football players in Iran would be shown the yellow card if they do not properly...
Iran: Young woman, 34, commits suicide in Tehran
A young woman committed suicide by taking pills and died in Tehran’s Ekbatan township. “The reason...
Iran: UN working group accepted Maryam Akbari’s complaint
Following a complaint filed by political prisoner Maryam Akbari Monfared, UN Working Group on Enforced or...
Iran: British FM condemns continued detention of Nazanin Zaghari
Boris Johnson condemned Iran’s detention of British citizen Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and offered to visit her in...
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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.