Nearly 10% of women addicted to drugs in Iran are between 20 and 32
Zahra Bonianyan, advisor to women and the head of the Headquarters Fighting Narcotics for women and...
Women's News
Iran: A woman set fire on herself in front of a security forces building in Mobarakeh
At 11 a.m. on Tuesday, January 1, a middle-aged woman set fire to herself in the...
Iran: Wife of Bahai prisoner is arrested
Intelligence agents in the city of Gorgan have arrested Mozhde Zohuri in her home. They searched...
Iran: Qarchak Varamin prison running without hot water for the past few months
Qarchak Varamin, a detention center for women, has been running without hot water for the past...
Angry students in Shin Abad gathered to protest the Iranian regime’s inaction
According to reports from from Tehran, 40 girls injured in the Piranshahr's famous Shin Abad's school...
Smuggling Iranian girls continues
December 03, 2013 - Head of the immigration police verified the “smuggling of Iranian girls to...
Iran: Rate of women addicted to drugs has risen to 205 times in the last year and a half
December 3, 2013 - The Interior Minister of the clerical regime acknowledged the spread of addiction...
Maryam Shafi Pour’s Second Trial
Sources have reported that the health of jailed activist Maryam Shafipour – held behind bars in...
Iran: Kobra Rahman Poor – I’ve been executed time and again
Kobra Rahman Poor, a woman confined 13 years ago charged with murder spent 13 years in...
Iran: Three Baha’i women sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment
On 24 August Fariba Ashtari, Shabnam Motahed and Iman Rashidi, three Baha'i citizens were condemned to...
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...
Iranian Women Who Lost Their Lives in Iran’s January 2026 Uprising
Names That Must Not Be Forgotten Iranian women played a central and courageous role in the January 2026 uprising, standing...
O Mothers of Iran: A Manifesto of Unyielding Resistance to Misogynistic Barbarity
Through the deeply moving story of the Ebrahimpour family, Massoumeh Raouf delivers, with Ô Mères d’Iran (O Mothers of Iran),...
Iran Regime Arrests Women and Girls: Torture and Detention without Legal Clarity
Amid a growing wave of arrests targeting women and teenage girls across multiple Iranian cities, numerous reports have emerged detailing...
Wave of Arrests Targeting Women and Minors Amid Wartime in Iran
Following an intensified crackdown amid the recent war, multiple reports indicate a sharp rise in arrests across Iran, with women...
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.