NCRI Women's Committee

Reports have emerged of multiple incidents of female students being targeted with toxic chemicals in their schools, causing severe harm to their health. These incidents have been happening since November 30. The chemical attacks paused for a few weeks during the Persian New Year holidays but resumed after Nowruz's first day of school. The attacks have been highly targeted and directed mainly...

In recent months, the Iranian regime has intensified its campaign to impose the compulsory veil on women.  There’s been a coordinated effort by various government officials and agencies to promote the hijab as a legal requirement and label its removal as a threat to national security.  The mullahs intensified their measures against opponents of the mandatory hijab in March.  Businesses that served...

We will be discussing a very serious and heartbreaking issue that has been occurring in Iran over the past four months. The alarming biological and chemical attacks on young women and school girls.  This cruel and inhumane act is the Iranian regime's latest attempt to silence protests and the ongoing revolution led by young women and schoolgirls. Support the show

Girls' schools in Iran have been targeted with biological attacks in what many believe is a form of retaliation for their participation in anti-regime protests. Hundreds of students have fallen ill. Even more alarming is that this isn't an isolated incident - it's happened all across the country, affecting 5,000 students at least. The chemical attacks are not only causing instant ha...

Iranian women’s right to freedom in choosing what to wear, clothing, and covering has been a contentious issue in Iran for many years. The mandatory hijab was enforced by the mullahs' regime after the 1979 Revolution and especially considering the recent uprising in Iran sparked by the death in custody of a young woman for flouting the mandatory dress code. For thousands of years in Iran, wom...

On the eve of the anniversary of Iran’s anti-monarchy Revolution on February 11, 1979, we prepared an episode devoted to the heroism of Iranian women who fought against the Shah’s dictatorship and opened the way for millions of Iranian women to participate in deciding the fate of their country. Support the show

This time, we bring you the inspiring stories of a series of women who have suffered greatly during the recent protests in Iran but remain high-spirited in their fight for freedom. As you might be aware, blinding the protesters has been one of the mullahs’ inhuman ways to crush the uprising.  Put yourself in their shoes. You lose your eye or eyes just for participating in a legitimate protest to d...

We’re talking about political prisoner Maryam Akbari Monfared . On December 29, as the world was celebrating Christmas and the New Year, she marked the end of her 13th year in prison for seeking justice for her siblings executed by the Iranian regime in the 1980s. Maryam had been imprisoned in the women’s ward of Evin Prison until the 9th of March 2021, when she was violently brought out of her ce...

In this last episode of 2022, we will have an overview of a method the clerical regime most commonly used in the recent uprising to evade accountability for the murder of protesters. Of course, we are going to focus on the cases of women. During more than 100 days of the Iran uprising , we have frequently run into cases where the deaths of protesters have been officially attributed to accidents, s...

Congratulations to all freedom-loving women of the world, especially the courageous women and girls in Iran, on removing the Iranian regime from the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). The landmark decision was made after heated debates since it was unprecedented for the UN to expel a member state from its commissions.  The membership of the child-killing regime of gender apartheid in the...

The world marked the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on November 25. Just the day before, the UN Human Rights Council held a Special Session that approved a resolution to form a fact-finding mission to investigate human rights violations in Iran. Virtually all delegates in this special session admired Iranian women’s courage in leading the protests and standing up t...

In today’s episode, as the people in Iran are taking to the streets on the anniversary of the November 2019, we will focus on the goals and desires of the courageous women of Iran and the role they play in what’s indeed a Revolution.  The answer to this question is very simple. The goal of these protests and this revolution can be summarized in one word, “freedom.” Something that the people of Ira...

State-backed violence against schoolgirls in Iran is occurring, too often. Now that the girls are resisting being forced into taking part in pro-regime ceremonies, they are beaten in school premises, arrested, and tortured to death in detention.  Although it seems to be sheer madness, but this is the true nature of the Iranian regime.  In just the past couple of days, parents have rushed to differ...

Just a few days ago, the world marked the 10th anniversary of the International Day for the Girl .  Although the world has paid increased attention to the issues that matter to girls, investments in girls’ rights remain limited and girls continue to confront a myriad of challenges to fulfilling their potential.  With adversity, however, comes resourcefulness, creativity, tenacity, and resilience....

Fourteen days past the tragic death of Mahsa Amini in police custody, Iran is still engulfed in angry protests.  Today we’re going to discuss how and why an innocent woman’s death sparked massive protests across the country, jolting the Iranian regime’s pillars of power. The Guidance patrols’ ruthless brutality against a young woman, fracturing her skull and causing brain hemorrhage by the heavy b...

Water is the most essential element of life but do you know why millions of Iranians are deprived of decent access to clean water despite the country’s wealth of resources? The water crisis in Iran is what we discuss and find out how deep in crisis Iran is, regarding SDG6. SDG6 aims to ‘ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.’ With water protests continuing...

Enforced disappearance is among the worst violations of human rights. There is no crime crueler than the “disappearance” of a human being. Enforced disappearances are a tool of terror with a devastating impact that strikes not just individuals and their families, but the entire society. Impunity and attempts to destroy evidence of past violations continued during the reporting period, including in...

Executions and suppression of women mark Raisi’s one year in office. August 3 marked the first anniversary of Ebrahim Raisi taking office in Iran after a rigged election engineered by the mullahs’ supreme leader.  The past year in Iran saw a staggering rise in executions and the clampdown on Iranian women. That’s in addition to a bankrupt economy with people becoming poorer every day, and a growin...

In Iran today, the perpetrators of crime against humanity are sitting at the highest levels of government. Ebrahim Raisi, the regime’s Deputy Prosecutor General at the time and one of the key members of the Death Commission ordering the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in 1988 , is now the regime’s president.  As Amnesty International Secretary-General said, “That Ebrahim Raisi has risen to...

SDG 5.6 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals wants to ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action  In this podcast, the NCRI Women’s Committee will get into the details of how the Iranian regime has failed to giv...

Instead of focusing on the economic situation that is in shambles, the Iranian regime is spending a lot of money to control women’s Hijab.  Enforcing the mandatory veil is used as a tool of repression . The clerical regime finds its male-dominated and medieval interpretation of Islam a systematic way to chain Iranian women and deprive them of their freedoms. Support the show

This time, we’re going to explore the NCRI Women’s Committee report to the UN Beijing +26 summit . This 300-page report comes in nine chapters and reviews the conduct of the Iranian regime 26 years after the Beijing Conference on Women’s rights.  We aim to review the parts from this report covering the Iranian regime’s measures concerning the Second Sustainable Development Goal of the UN, known as...

This time we examine the issues of child brides and honor killings in Iran.  Although the legal age of marriage in Iran is 13, the law allows a girl’s father or paternal grandfather to wed her even at a younger age. And there have been many examples of girls being wed at age 9 and even as young as 5.  At least 100 marriages of girls under 15 every 24 hours. One should bear in mind that considering...

It’s unbelievable but the bitter truth is that the misogynist mullahs' regime ruling Iran is the world’s chief executioner of women. This is what we are going to discuss today and examine its unseen or untold causes.  The Iranian regime is the chief executioner of women in the world because there is no other country executing so many women every year.  Of course, in this podcast, we are focus...

For several decades now, The Compulsory Veil or the mandatory Hijab has become the symbol of suppression of women by the Iranian mullah regime. In this episode, we are going to discuss the issue of mandatory Hijab in Iran, which is forced on all women from all religions, and we are also going to talk about the need for women’s freedom of choice in this regard. Support the show