Iran: SSF will be harsh on women breaching Hijab rules in Isfahan
Commander of the State Security Force in Isfahan declared that the SSF “opposes women’s bicycling.” Abdolreza...
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Iran: Armed Forces spokesman addresses unveiling of women in cars
Legal authorities have no doubts about the need to observe the veil inside the cars. Seyyed...
Iran: Director of Evin clinic refuses to send Atena Daemi to hospital
In the last minutes before Atena Daemi’s dispatch to a medical center outside, the director of...
Iran: Security forces arrest female civil rights activist
Civil and women’s rights activist Safieh Gharebaghi was arrested by agents of the Intelligence Department of...
Iran: SSF cracks down on women in Boushehr’s beach
Commander of the State Security Force in Boushehr (southern Iran) announced that his forces will deal...
Iran: Women nurses stage protest in Semnan
Women nurses staged a protest on two consecutive days on July 16 and 17, 2017, outside...
Iran: Arbitrary killing of a young woman in Tehran
Agents of the State Security Force in Tehran engaged in shooting at a vehicle in Tehran’s...
Iran: Women denied license to perform in concert
Members of an all-women music group, Hanareh, were not granted license to perform in concert. Baran...
Iran: 16 nurses die in 18 months
Over the past one and a half years in Iran, sixteen nurses, women between 25 and...
Iran: 15-year-old child divorcees
“We have 15-year-old divorcees in the country.” This was acknowledged by Parvaneh Salahshour, head of the...
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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.