Baha’i family conditions in Iran prison
Reports of the status of members of a Baha’i family by the names of Adel and...
Women's News
Iran: mandatory headscarves for young girls
Thousands of elementary schoolgirls have in the past 10 years been forced to wear chadors under...
What do Iran’s homeless women and girls undergo while sleeping in the streets?
Fatemeh Daneshvar, head of the Social Committee in Tehran’s so-called city council shed light on the...
Iran: Young woman executed in Shiraz
Fatemeh Salbehi, a young woman who had been arrested at the age of 17 on the...
Iran: Nargess Mohammadi hospitalized while chained to bed
Nargess Mohammadi was transferred to hospital on October 11 and hospitalized while chained to bed. Ms....
Iran: Official assails UN for promoting women’s parliamentary presence
Minoo Aslani, head of Women's Community Mobilization Organization, lashed out at UN for adopting plan to...
Iran: New vice patrol plan to be implemented soon
In a gathering in Qom for briefing vice patrols, deputy for popular organizations Seyed Mehdi Amini...
Iran: Two post-modern poets sentenced to long jail terms
Ms. Fatemeh Ekhtessari and her husband, Mehdi Moussavi, have been sentenced to 9 and 11.5 years...
Iran: Depression led to death of girl, 13
A 13-year-old girl called Parinaz committed suicide in east Tehran on Saturday, October 10, by throwing...
Iran: After one year, victims of acid attacks await justice
One year past the bitter acid attacks in Isfahan and other cities, the Iranian state security...
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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