Iran: Women stage protest rally outside the Central Bank
A number of women staged a gathering outside the Central Bank of Iran on Wednesday, April...
Women's News
Iran: More restrictions on women’s musical performances
Mir-Emadi, Friday prayer leader of Khorramabad, called for cancellation of women's musical concerts in the city....
Iran: Charity center defending children’s rights got sealed
Security forces sealed the headquarters of the charity Association of Advocates of Children's' Rights is based...
Iran rejects Briton’s plea to release wife
The Sunday Times, April 23 2017 The husband of a British woman detained in Iran has...
Iran: Amnesty International issued Urgent Action for Atena Daemi
Amnesty International issued an Urgent Action statement on April 20, 2017, for political prisoner Atena Daemi...
Iran: Women live in deplorable conditions in slums
A Tehran gathering entitled, "violence against women in shanty towns", discussed the deplorable conditions of women...
Iran: Women teachers held protest in Zanjan
Women teachers applying for housing in Zanjan held a protest rally in front of the Governor’s...
Iran: Young woman commits suicide in Orumiyeh
A young woman from Orumiyeh, set herself on fire and died on April 18, 2017. Vida...
Iran: Nurses launch protest in the social media
Nurses in Iran have embarked on a campaign in the social media to express their protest...
Iran: Atena Daemi’s mother urged UNSR to improve prison conditions
Ms. Massoumeh Nemati wrote a letter to the UN Special Rapporteur on Iran, Ms. Asma Jahangir,...
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.