Iran: Women denied freedom even in cars
One of the officials of Kohgilouyeh and Boyer Ahmad Province, in southwestern Iran, complained about women...
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Iran: Young woman goes on hunger strike to protest discrimination
A Marivani school girl went on hunger strike to protest the announced results of the national...
EU, UN launch new initiative to eliminate violence against women
The European Union and the United Nations launched a joint initiative on September 20, 2017, to...
Iran: Zeinab Jalalian deprived of weekly family visitations
Zeinab Jalalian said her weekly family visits had been discontinued by the security section of Khoy...
Iran: Christian couple arrested in Tehran
Security forces in Tehran have arrested a Christian couple after summoning them to the Intelligence Department....
Iran: More than 13% of Iranians suffer from depression
The secretary of the Scientific Association of Psychiatrists, Arash Mirabzadeh, announced that some 13.5% of the...
Iran: Sentence of 80 lashes carried out on Leila Bayat
The order of 80 lashes was carried out in Iran on Tuesday afternoon, September 19, 2017,...
Iran: Two women prisoners go on dry hunger strike
Melika Kavandi and Zahra Shafii Dehaghani have gone on dry hunger strike since September 19, 2017....
Iran: Woman on the verge of execution in Shiraz
The Iranian Supreme Court upheld the death sentence for a woman from Shiraz. The woman charged...
Iran: Women’s admission to stadiums not a social priority – official
In a meeting on the presence of women in sports stadiums, Mehdi Taj, the head of...
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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.