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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...
Sign our Statement to Halt the Death Sentence of 25-Year-Old Political Prisoner Arghavan Fallahi
Statement Calling for Immediate Action to Halt the Death Sentence of 25-Year-Old Political Prisoner Arghavan Fallahi We express our profound...
The Ineffectiveness of Population Policies in Iran: Economy, Aging, and the Overlooked Rights of Women
Abstract: A compilation of official data, media reports, and disclosures published in April, May, and June 2026 demonstrates that Iran...
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...
Iran Healthcare Workers Protest Against Severe Livelihood and Structural Crises
In the summer of 2026, an Iran healthcare workers protest wave highlights how the country’s health system faces chronic financial...
More than 4,000 Prominent Political and Social Figures Call for the Revocation of Arghavan Fallahi’s Death Sentence
More than 4000 prominent political and social figures, including elected representatives, university professors, educators, lawyers, judges, authors, artists, leaders of...
Iran: Continued Arrests and Long Prison Terms for Women Protesters
January 2026 nationwide uprising has been followed by a wave of continued arrests, harsh sentences, and continued judicial uncertainty for...
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.