Iran: Women under pressure, commit suicide
At least three women have committed suicide over the past days. An 18-year-old woman hanged herself...
Women's News
Iran: Rowing champion, Fereshteh Hosseini, seeks refuge in Germany
Fereshteh Hosseini, member of Iran's Canoe Polo national team, who had traveled to Germany, has formally...
Iran: Atena Daemi draws international support
Atena Daemi's steadfast hunger strike in defense of human rights has attracted strong support among Amnesty...
Iran: Atena Daemi boycotts election while on her hunger strike
In the fortieth day of her hunger strike in Evin Prison, Atena Daemi announced that she...
Iran: Atena Farghadani mocks the mullahs’ sham election
Young artist and former prisoner of conscience Atena Farghadani sketched a new cartoon mocking the sham...
Iran: Golrokh Iraee boycotted the elections from inside jail cell
Human rights activist Golrokh Iraee sent an open letter from Evin Prison and wrote about the...
Iran: Shahin Mahinfar declared she won’t cast a ballot
Shahin Mahinfar, a human rights activist, denounced the Iranian regime's upcoming elections and declared that she...
Iran: Court incriminates Kurdish woman based on forced confessions
Forced confessions made under torture by political activist Safi Sadeghi while under interrogation in the detention...
Iran: Atena Daemi denied treatment at hospital
Evin Prison's infirmary refused to send Atena Daemi on the night of May 15, 2017, for...
Iran: Massoumeh Zia not released despite receipt of bail money
Judiciary officials continue to detain civil rights activist Massoumeh Zia despite having received 200 million toumans...
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.