Baha'i poet Mahvash Sabet, who was jailed for nearly a decade in Iran, has been selected as the 2017 International Writer of Courage. Northern Ireland poet Michael Longley ...
Read moreDetailsLisa Tebyanian was arrested on March 15, 2017, by security forces of the Province of Alborz, central Iran. The security forces also inspected the residence of this Baha'ii ...
Read moreDetailsA number of Baha'ii women are imprisoned just for being Baha'iis. In the latest example, Jila Shahriari was arrested on August 12, 2016, and has been held since ...
Read moreDetailsBaha'ii citizens continue to be targeted and harassed by the regime in Iran. The latest example is Ms. Sheida Tayeed who went to prison on June 23, 2016, ...
Read moreDetailsMs. Tahereh Zia'ii was arrested in the morning of Tuesday, October 20, 2015, in front of her house in Isfahan. She was subsequently taken to the prison of ...
Read moreDetailsThree Baha'is were put on trial in the northern Iranian province of Golestan. Rufia Pakzadan, Soudabeh Mehdi-Nejad and Nazi Haghighi were tried on the charge of propaganda against ...
Read moreDetailsCurrently there are many women behind bars because of their Baha'i beliefs. They are deprived of their basic human rights and are constantly harassed or insulted by security ...
Read moreDetailsFarah Baghi is a Baha'i citizen detained in Yazd Prison (central Iran) ever since February 10. She has recently written a letter and described in brief the cruelty ...
Read moreDetailsGita Gooran Mohit, a Kurd student from Razi University in Kermanshah, was summoned by the university's Education Organization in late fall.She was told that she is not allowed ...
Read moreDetailsOn 24 August Fariba Ashtari, Shabnam Motahed and Iman Rashidi, three Baha'i citizens were condemned to 10 years of prison term overall by Yazd's Revolution Court (central Iran). ...
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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.
