Iranian Student Activist Leila Hosseinzadeh Expelled from University and Barred from Education
Leila Hosseinzadeh, a prominent 31-year-old Iranian student activist and anthropology graduate at the University of Tehran,...
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UN 71st Resolution Condemns Iran’s Human Rights Violations, Targeted Repression of Women
The United Nations General Assembly adopted its 71st resolution on December 17, 2024, denouncing the Iranian...
Zeinab Jalalian: Continued Denial of Medical Care and Family Visits for Iranian Political Prisoner
Zeinab Jalalian, a Kurdish political prisoner serving a life sentence in the central Iranian city of...
Yazd Central Prison: One Woman Among 7 Prisoners Executed
5 Women Executed in Iran in the First Half of December In the early hours of...
Kurdish Teacher and Union Activist in Sanandaj Suspended for Two Months Following Disciplinary Ruling
Sanandaj, Western Iran—Leila Salimi, a prominent teacher and union activist from Sanandaj, the capital of Iran’s...
Detained Women’s Rights Activist Siran Khosravi Held in Uncertainty for Nearly a Month
Sanandaj, Western Iran – Siran Khosravi, a 37-year-old women’s rights activist from Sanandaj, has been in...
Varisha Moradi Faces Health Crisis Without Access to Treatment
Iranian Regime Denies Medical Care to Political Prisoner on Death Row Varisha Moradi, a political prisoner...
Kowsar Dehban Zadeh: Over Two Months of Uncertainty in Shiraz Detention Center
Kowsar Dehban Zadeh, sister of political prisoner Maysam Dehban Zadeh, has been held in prolonged detention...
Shiva Esmaeli: Political Prisoner Denied Family Visits and Contact in Evin Prison
Sixty-year-old political prisoner Shiva Esmaeli, a retired agricultural engineer and mother of several children, remains detained...
Ameneh Alipour, 37, hanged in the Prison of Zanjan, Iran
The clerical regime hanged another woman at dawn on Saturday, December 7, 2024. Ameneh Alipour was...
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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.