Iran: 15-year-old girl arrested by security forces
Intelligence forces in Abadan, southwestern Iran, arrested a teenage girl. Ma’edeh Shaabani Nejad, 15, was arrested...
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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...
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...
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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.