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A group of lawyers, civil activists and human rights advocates participated in a sit-in staged outside...
Women's News
Iran: Unknown fate of 17 year-old girl
Three weeks after the uprisings in the city of Mahabad and other Kurdish cities, there is...
Iran: Pregnant women are homeless
Aria News, a state-run news source, issued a report on the terrible conditions of women in...
Iran – Age of widows reaches 16
A recent report published by state-run media in Iran states, “The increasing number of divorces, the...
International press reacts to detention of Iranian cartoonist
Atena Farghadani went on trial in Iran. What were her crimes? According to Amnesty International, they...
Iran: 89 arrested in East Tehran
State-run Fars news agency reported a number of women were arrested at a party held in...
Senior Iran mullah: Islamic rule will be destroyed without hijab!
Makarem Shirazi, a senior mullah of Qom claimed if hijab becomes a matter of choice it...
Iran: significant numbers of impoverished women
Poverty amongst Iranian women has reached a point that state officials are admitting to this phenomenon....
100 female workers laid off in northern Iran
The Akryl Tob factory in northern Iran has been closed down and all its 100 female...
Nasrin Sotoudeh : “They can’t silence us”
Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has staged a sit-in outside the Iranian Bar Association for...
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...
Water Crisis in Iran: Women Bear the Brunt of Escalating Shortages
From securing family water to coping with poverty and migration, women are the primary victims of Iran’s escalating water crisis....
Feminization of Poverty in Iran Under War and Inflation
Iranian Women's Share of the International Day of Family Remittances; Feminization of poverty in Iran under the shadow of inflation....
Iranian Women on the Hidden Front of the War in Iran
Bearing Unequal Burdens Across Livelihoods, Health, and Education in the Recent Conflict The recent war in Iran does not unfold...
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.