Iran: Increasing number of homeless women sleeping in the streets
Farzad Hoshiyar, director general of the Tehran Welfare and Municipality Organization admitted, “In Tehran alone, there...
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Iranian women suffering from MS three times more than men
Majid Ghomi, head of the Iran MS Association, described the increasing number of MS patients in...
Iran: Misogynist laws are roots of 20-year old woman setting herself ablaze
A college girl set herself ablaze on 7 May in Shiraz University’s parking lot and lost...
Iran: Narges Mohammadi left in limbo in prison
According to published reports, Narges Mohammadi, journalist and human rights activist has been kept in limbo...
Iran: Civil-child rights activist condemned to 7 years prison
Atena Daemi, a civil rights and child rights activist who has been in Evin Prison since...
Iran: Mullahs’ public prosecutor promises more crackdown on Mahabad
Ibrahim Re'isi, the Iranian regime’s Public Prosecutor, on the recent unrest in Mahabad said, “This incident...
‘Guidance’ police units stationing at book exhibition entrance
Montazer al-Mehdi, the State Security Forces’ social deputy admitted to stationing so-called ‘Guidance’ patrol units at...
Iran: Tight security control in Kurdish cities, regime’s response to popular protests
Residents of the city of Sanandaj, capital of Iran’s Kurdistan Province, said their hometown has turned...
Rally outside Evin Prison until Narges Mohammadi is released
A group of family members of political prisoners and a number of human rights activists rallied...
Iran: Dire conditions of women in city outskirts
State-run Salamat News source referred to the dire conditions of women in the outskirts of cities.“They...
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.