Iran: A young female physician committed suicide in Sanandaj
Dr. Arezoo Ghobadi hanged herself on a tree in Aveer Park in Sanandaj, capital of Kurdistan...
Women's News
Iran: Women teachers stage protest in Soldouz and Kerman
Teachers have been protesting continuously over the past seven weeks in cities across Iran. On Tuesday,...
Iran: Women of Dayyer protested frequent water cut-offs
Women of Dayyer staged a protest on Monday, October 16, 2017, at the Governor’s Office in...
Iran: Elderliness has also become feminine
Iranian officials warn elderliness has become feminine. Farahnaz Mohammadi, member of the Center for Elderliness Research,...
Iran: Women literacy teachers stage protest in West Azerbaijan
Women literacy teachers staged a protest gathering on Monday, October 16, 2017 in West Azerbaijan, northwestern...
Iran: Eight years of prison sentence for four women
The Iranian regime’s judiciary issued a total of 8 years of suspended prison sentence for four...
Iran: 22,000 women dealt with in Tonekabon for mal-veiling
22,000 women have been dealt with over a year in the city of Tonekabon, northern Iran,...
Iran: Young women and runaway girls experience mental disorders
“Some 1000 run-away girls were admitted to welfare centers over the past year,” the deputy for...
Iran: Cleric admits failure in imposing mandatory veil on women
One of the clerical regime’s high ranking religious scholars admitted that the mullahs have failed to...
Iran: Women actively engage in struggle against mullahs’ regime
In the anti-government demonstrations of recent days in Iran, we have seen Iranian women who not...
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...
Mahnaz Maimanat Elected as New Secretary General of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK)
Elections Held Across Seven Countries in Three-Stage Voting On the eve of the 62nd anniversary of the founding of the...
Women’s Leadership in the PMOI
For Nearly Four Decades, Competent Women of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) Have Led the Fight Against the...
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...
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.