Syrian refugee girl becomes UN goodwill ambassador
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, announced the appointment of Syrian refugee and Olympic athlete Yusra Mardini...
Women's News
Iran: Nazanin Zaghari’s appeal for revision was turned down
Tehran's head of Justice Department announced on Wednesday, April 26, 2017, that the Appeals Court had...
Iran: Activist women were summoned to court
On the eve of the International Workers Day, two activist women were summoned to the Revolutionary...
Iran: Woman deprived of playing in national futsall team
Shiva Amini, a member of Iran's national futsal team, was deprived of playing futsal after she...
Iran: Tehran’s prosecutor underlines mandatory veil as official policy
In a meeting on April 25 on the enforcement of the mandatory veil for women, Tehran's...
Iran: Women protesters gathered in front of Pasteur
Dozens of women held a protest rally on Monday morning, April 24, 2017, in front of...
Iran: Narges Mohammadi celebrated her 45th birthday in jail
Political prisoner and human rights defender Narges Mohammadi celebrated her 45th birthday in the notorious Evin...
Iran: Sunni women called for boycott of the elections
Sunni women, whose sons have either been executed or imprisoned, described the upcoming presidential elections in...
Iran: Women teachers staged protest in front of the parliament
Women teachers and pre-school teachers from northern Iranian provinces converged in Tehran and staged a protest...
Iran: Atena Daemi threatened to go on dry hunger strike
Hunger striking political prisoner and civil rights activist Atena Daemi threatened to stage a sit-in and...
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.