Iran: One woman gets divorce every hour in Kerman
One family is destroyed every hour in the southern Iranian province of Kerman. According to the...
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Iran: Atena Daemi underwent surgery with no handcuffs or shackles
Iranian human rights activist Atena Daemi finally underwent cholecystectomy in a Tehran’s hospital on October 7,...
Iran: Medical students protested female student’s death
Students of the Medical Sciences University of Shahr-e Kord, south central Iran, in a gathering on...
Iran: Students of nursing protest officials’ fraud
Students of nursing and nursing aide staged protest gatherings against fraud of state officials in a...
Iran: Women complete 22 days of round-the-clock sit-in protest
A group of Iranian women completed their 22nd night of a round-the-clock sit-in protest in Tehran...
Iran: Women stage protests in Khorassan and Lorestan
Women staged protests across from the Governor’s Office in Khorassan, northeast Iran, and the Headquarters of...
Iran: Young woman dies in student dormitory
A young woman, 9th term medical student, got suffocated by gas while taking shower in the...
Iran: 2400 agents to crack down on women in Semnan, alone
The Secretary of Semnan Province’s Staff in charge of Promoting Virtue and Forbidding Vice announced that...
Iran: Women actively participate in Teachers’ Day protest gatherings
Women teachers actively and extensively participated in nationwide gatherings in Iran called for Thursday, October 5,...
Iran: 5-year-prison sentences for religious minority women
Three Iranian women were sentenced to five years in prison for their religious beliefs. The women...
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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.