Iran: Nursing students protests across the country
Nursing students and their professors at the University of Medical Sciences in Isfahan formed a human...
Women's News
Iran: 40th-day memorial ceremony in honor of fellow student
Students of Maragheh University (northwest Iran) held a ceremony commemorating a fellow girl student who had...
Iran: Reyhaneh Jabbari’s mother calls for protests
Reyhaneh Jabbari was a 26-year-old woman who was executed for defending herself to rape by an...
Iran: Sattar Beheshti’s sister writes about her slain brother
Sahar Beheshti, sister of slain blogger Sattar Beheshti wrote on her Facebook page after visiting Sattar’s...
Iran: Traffic police to harass women
Teymour Hosseini, head of Greater Tehran’s traffic police reported his agents are taking action against women...
Iran: mother of slain blogger expresses sympathy with detainees
Mrs. Gohar Eshghi, the mother of Sattar Beheshti, a blogger who was killed in detention by...
Iran: Medical students stage strike
Medical students in Arak staged a strike on Saturday, November 28, 2015, in protest to the...
Iran: Orchestra barred over women musicians
A high-profile performance in Iran by the Tehran Symphony Orchestra was cancelled at the last minute...
Iran: Political prisoner sentenced to two years behind bars
Afsaneh Bayazidi was sentenced to two years imprisonment by the court of Mahabad, Iranian Kurdistan. This...
Iran: Addicted women collected from streets
Tehran’s governor announced that addicted women will be collected from across the capital within 10 days....
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...
A Report to CSW70: Gender-Based Discrimination Under Iranian Law
Structural Inequality and State-Sanctioned Oppression of Women Gender-Based Discrimination Under Iranian Law” is the title of the NCRI Women’s Committee’s...
Annual Report 2026: From Protests, to Uprising, and the Role of Iranian Women
On the eve of International Women’s Day 2026, the NCRI Women’s Committee presents its Annual Report 2026, offering a recap...
Aziz Rezaei: Mother of Resistance, Teacher of Steadfastness
In the contemporary history of Iran, there are names that live not merely as memories, but as paths. The name...
Iranian Student Recounts Prison Abuse: My Brother Was Tortured before My Eyes
On May 10, 2026, the Daily Mail published an interview with Iranian student Shabnam Madadzadeh, a former political prisoner, member...
The Commercial Complex Death Trap: When Corruption and Rente Burn Iranian Women to Ashes
On the evening of Tuesday, May 5, 2026, the Arghavan commercialcomplex in Shahriar County, west of Tehran, became a death...
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