First Nowruz for former Gharchak Varamin prisoner
Elham Ferdowsi, a gifted college student studying economics, was a prisoner in the notorious Gharchak Varamin...
Women's News
Iranian regime approves and rejects women’s presence in sports stadiums, all in one day
On April 4, 2015 state-run website ‘Khane Varzesh’ quoted a deputy of the Minister of Sports...
Iran: Harsh life of rug-weaving women and girls
Their hands are covered with callus. Every two weeks they have to clip the calluses so...
New proposed laws reduce Iranian women to ‘baby making machines’
If two new proposed laws are approved, Iranian women can face significant restrictions in use of...
Iran: Political prisoner transferred from Gharchak prison to Evin after threatening to stage hunger strike
Political prisoner Hakimeh Shokri, who was held in Evin Prison from December 2012, was illegally transferred...
Domestic violence backed by law in Iran
Based on a research carried out by the Office of Social Affairs of Iran’s Interior Ministry...
Unemployment rising among Iranian women
In Iran only 12% of women are employed, and 52% of those employed have unofficial jobs,...
Iran: ‘Guidance’ teams stationed to control women during the Iranian New Year
Mullah Mohammad Zarean, head of the Department of ‘Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice’, announced...
Iran: Misusing name of most prestigious female figure in Islam to crackdown on women
Mullah Mohsen Shabestari, Khamenei’s representative in East Azerbaijan Province, tried to manipulate a ceremony marking the...
Case of British-Iranian prisoner closed with a 1 billion Rial bail payment
British-Iranian national, Ghoncheh Ghavami, who was arrested along with other women on 20 June 2014 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...
Parisa Kamali: “If Today I Stand on the Right Side of History, I Owe It to the PMOI”
Audio message from PMOI political prisoner Parisa Kamali on the anniversary of the founding of the People's Mojahedin Organization of...
Forough Taghipour and Arghavan Fallahi: We are Generation Z—Anti-Dictatorship, and Opposed to Both the Shah and the Mullahs
Message from PMOI political prisoners Forough Taghipour and Arghavan Fallahi from Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison on the anniversary of the...
Women, Resistance, Freedom: The Unbroken Lineage from Camp Ashraf to Iran’s Gen-Z Revolution
When an early morning raid struck Camp Ashraf at 5:00 AM on September 1, 2013, the goal of Iran’s clerical...
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.