Iran: Average age of female prisoners ranges between 20 and 35
According to official sources in Iran, there are some 226 female prisoners jailed for undeliberate crimes....
Women's News
Iran: Nargess Mohammadi’s new sentence is implemented
With the completion of her first prison sentence of six years on March 15, 2017, Nargess...
Iran: Massoumeh Zia has been deprived of contacting her family
Civil rights activist Massoumeh Zia who is presently imprisoned in Evin Prison, has been deprived of...
Iran: Woman, 64, detained in Evin Prison with a 34-year sentence
Political prisoner Noushindokht Mir-Abdolbaghi, 64, is presently detained in Evin Prison's Women's Ward, serving her 34-year...
Iran: Nazanin Zaghari deprived of contacting her family
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been deprived of contacting her family and husband in U.K., for two weeks...
Iran: New sentence for Atena Daemi and her sisters
Tehran's Quds Judiciary Complex sentenced the Daemi sisters (Atena, Ensieh and Hanieh) to prison sentences of...
Iran: Mahsa Torabi ran in men’s marathon to show her protest
A woman participated in the men's marathons in Shiraz, southern Iran, to demonstrate her protest to...
Iran: Young woman commits suicide in Marivan
A 25-year-old woman identified as Sh. A. committed suicide and died in one of the neighborhoods...
Iran: Soheila Kargar sentenced to five years in jail
The Revolutionary Court of Qazvin sentenced Soheila Kargar, a civil rights activist, to five years imprisonment...
Iran: Azita Rafizadeh returns to Evin prison
With the conclusion of her leave for the Iranian New Year holidays, Azita Rafizadeh, Bahaii prisoner...
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.