Iran: Female pool players were deprived of games for one year
The disciplinary committee of Iran's Bowling and Billiard Federation deprived several female pool players from participating...
Women's News
Iran: Families of death-row prisoners to hold protest gathering
Families of death-row prisoners have announced that they will hold a gathering on April 9, in...
Iran: Three women transferred to solitary confinement in Evin
Massoumeh Zia, Tahereh Riyahi, and Mahsa Roj'ati were transferred to solitary confinement in Ward 241 of...
Iran: Afsaneh Bayazidi held in solitary confinement
Kurdish student activist Afsaneh Bayazdi has been sent into solitary confinement in the wake of writing...
Iran: Mandate of Special Rapporteur extended for another year
The UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on March 24, 2017, extending the mandate of...
Iran: Evin prisoner writes of her faith in the spring of freedom
In a letter to her family on the Persian New Year, Maryam Akbari Monfared reiterated her...
Iran’s rights abuses discussed in Human Rights Council debate
The Human Rights Council held a general debate in Geneva on the follow-up to and implementation...
Iran: Security forces prevented commemoration of slain prisoners
The families of political prisoners massacred in summer 1988 commemorated their loved ones on the last...
Iran: Sholeh Pakravan vows to continue demanding justice for Reyhaneh
Human rights and anti-death penalty activist Sholeh Pakravan published a letter to her daughter, Reyhaneh Jabbari...
Iran: Cartoonist remembers her cellmates in Nowruz
Renowned cartoonist Atena Farghadani in a post in her Facebook account described her condition in prison...
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.
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