Iran: Women arrested for attending a party
Gorgan’s Prosecutor Mostafa Haghi announced the arrest of 8 women and 7 men in a private...
Women's News
Iran: Women staged protest against looting of their properties
A group of women staged a protest on May 28, 2017, in Aligoudarz, western Iranian Lorestan...
Iran: Mahtab Alipour arrested with no warrant
Security forces raided the residence of Mahtab Alipour on May 27, 2017, and arrested her without...
Iran: Women protesters blocked the road in Ahvaz
A group of women staged a protest on Sunday May 27, 2017, in Ahvaz. These women...
Iran: Revision Court takes up case of Daemi sisters
The case of Daemi sisters was examined by the 48th Branch of the Revision Court of...
Iran: Women protested against depository institute in Mashhad
A group of women staged a protest in front of the Governor’s Building in Mashhad on...
Iran: Domestic violence claimed lives of three women
In the third week of May, three women lost their lives in northern Iran. In Chalus,...
Iran: New threats brandished against women on the eve of Ramadan
The State Security Force (SSF) issued an official statement on the eve of the Holy month...
Iran: Women take part in protest in Tehran
A group of women gathered outside the Iranian parliament in Tehran to express their protest. They...
Iran: Two activist women sentenced to jail
Two activist women were condemned to jail sentences on May 24, 2017, by the Court of...
Sign our Statement to Halt the Death Sentence of 25-Year-Old Political Prisoner Arghavan Fallahi
Statement Calling for Immediate Action to Halt the Death Sentence of 25-Year-Old Political Prisoner Arghavan Fallahi We express our profound...
The Ineffectiveness of Population Policies in Iran: Economy, Aging, and the Overlooked Rights of Women
Abstract: A compilation of official data, media reports, and disclosures published in April, May, and June 2026 demonstrates that Iran...
Crushed by Design: Structural Crises and Inequitable Policies Push Female-Headed Households to the Edge
Introduction Life for the Iranian people under the religious dictatorship is fraught with hardship and peril from every perspective. Whether...
Parisa Kamali: “If Today I Stand on the Right Side of History, I Owe It to the PMOI”
Audio message from PMOI political prisoner Parisa Kamali on the anniversary of the founding of the People's Mojahedin Organization of...
Forough Taghipour and Arghavan Fallahi: We are Generation Z—Anti-Dictatorship, and Opposed to Both the Shah and the Mullahs
Message from PMOI political prisoners Forough Taghipour and Arghavan Fallahi from Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison on the anniversary of the...
Women, Resistance, Freedom: The Unbroken Lineage from Camp Ashraf to Iran’s Gen-Z Revolution
When an early morning raid struck Camp Ashraf at 5:00 AM on September 1, 2013, the goal of Iran’s clerical...
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.