Iran: Women arrested for celebrating Iraqi Kurdistan’s independence
Dozens of people, including a number of women, have been arrested by Iranian security forces in...
Women's News
Iran: Security forces attack mourning ceremony, violently beat women
Security forces attacked a Shiite Ashura ceremony in Shahr-e Ray on Sunday, October 1, 2017. They...
Iran: Women teachers staged protest in Kangavar
A number of contract teachers working in the town of Kangaver staged a protest gathering outside...
Iran: Leila Mir-Ghaffari in mental hospital, handcuffed and shackled
Iranian civil rights activist Leila Mir-Ghaffari, who had been arrested on September 26, 2017, is being...
Iran: Afghan girls expelled from a primary school in Kerman
Afghan girls studying in Kerman’s Zeinabiyeh primary school were collectively expelled on Monday, October 2, 2017,...
Iran: Bill to raise minimum age of women’s marriage faces obstacles
The mullahs’ parliament in Iran is stonewalling a bill seeking to raise the minimum age of...
Iran: Tehran protest responds to call by Soheil Arabi’s mother
A number of human rights’ activists gathered in protest in front of the mullahs’ parliament on...
Iran: Dorsa Derakhshani joins US national chess team
A young woman banned from the Iranian national chess team for attending the international competition in...
Iran: Blamed for failing to curtail trafficking in women and children
Iran was among the countries failing to crack down on human trafficking, the White House announced....
Iran: Telecom’s women employees stage protest
A number of women held a protest rally in front of Tehran’s Telecommunications Company on Friday,...
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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.