Collective Action of Independent Iranian Women
Collective Action of Independent Iranian Women was established in September 2020 with the aim of defending the achievements of Iranian women and saying “no” to sexual-gender oppression, reactionary ideologies, national, ethnic, racial, and economic-class injustices. Currently, 22 Iranian women’s organizations around the world, while maintaining their independent group identities, stand together under the framework of the Collective Action of Independent Iranian Women to show their solidarity with women in Iran and globally.
Latest Statements
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The Instrumentalization of Children Must End
We the 23 independent women’s organizations, express our deep concern over the instrumentalization of children in any form — whether through military activities, political exploitation, or even forcing them to repeat political slogans. We consider such actions a clear violation of children’s rights. Children are neither tools of war nor instruments for advancing the ideological…
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The lives of political and ideological prisoners and all those arrested during the January protests are in danger; No to executionnever, for anyone!!
We the 23 independent Iranian women’s organizations, are deeply concerned about the lives of political and ideological prisoners and all those detained during the month of January protests. Not long after the suppression of the January 2026 people’s uprising and the massacre of protesting people in the streets across the country, people who had risen up for their right to…
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Statement by 23 Independent Iranian Women’s Organizations; A Joint Action on the Occasion of International Women’s Day; No to War, No to Dictatorship — We Commemorate March 8 by Defending the Right to Life
A Joint Action on the Occasion of International Women’s Day This year, on the eve of March 8, International Women’s Day, we stand in circumstances far more different than before. It has not yet been two months since the large-scale massacre of people during the uprising of Dey 1404 (December–January 2025–2026), when people rose up…