Iran: Lack of safety led to wounding of woman worker
Farzaneh Namkhamessi, a working woman in Kamyaran, lost the fingers of her left hand while at...
Women's News
Iran: Mother raises voice in support of Atena Daemi
Mrs. Massoumeh Nemati, mother of the imprisoned civil rights activist Atena Daemi, paid a short visit...
Iran: Four women arrested in the south
Four women were arrested by security forces in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas and...
Iran: Retired women teachers stage protest in Tehran
A large number of women among some 100 retired teachers staged a protest in front of...
Iran: Women die due to lack of safety measures at workplace
Massoud Ghaderi Pasha, director general of the Coroner's Office in Tehran Province, announced Sunday, April 17,...
Iran: Athena Daemi suffers GI problems during hunger strike
Imprisoned civil rights activist Athena Daemi has been suffering from kidney infection after nine days of...
Iran: Zeinab Jalalian is deprived again from medical leave
Prison officials have once again refused to grant medical leave to political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian jailed...
Iran: Young girl injured in the collapse of classroom ceiling
The ceiling of a classroom in Searik Village collapsed on Thursday, April 13, 2017. A girl...
Iran: Woman voices protest against plunder of her wealth
On the fourth day of registration for the Iranian elections, a woman went to the Interior...
Iran: Zahra Zehtabchi is deprived of the right to enjoy leave
Political prisoner Zahra Zehtabchi has been deprived of enjoying any leaves from prison. Ms. Zehtabchi has...
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.