Acid attacks in Iran
A mother and her 8-year old daughter were the target of an acid attack by a...
Women's News
Iran: more women sleeping in the streets
The state-run Tasnim news agency wired a short report on more homeless women sleeping in the...
Revolutionary Guards target Internet activists
Reporters without Borders reiterates its condemnation of the Iranian regime's persecution of journalists and bloggers after...
Iran: 300 acid attacks in one year
Abolfazl Abu-Torabi, member of the Legal and Judiciary Commission in mullahs'parliament, referred to 300 cases of...
Iran: Women are unemployed graduates
A large portion of the unemployed educated population in Iran have expertise degrees. Unemployment rates of...
Iran: checkpoints used to ban women from entering stadiums
Reports indicate that on 22 June, coinciding with the second round of the volleyball competitions held...
Iran: Defense case of imprisoned artist Atena Faraghdani
Atena: Prior to 2009 I always asked myself why some people can't ever make ends meet...
Iranian broadcasting organization to implement gender segregation
According to the state-run ILNA news agency the state radio-TV deputy has ordered the radio network...
Iran: Women have the highest stats in suffering from depression
The state-run Tabnak website reported, "The latest statistics of psychological disorder spreading amongst women is 26%...
Iran: 12% of single mothers are under the age of 20
The number of single mothers is increasing rapidly across Iran. According to a state expert, in...
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...
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.