Annalena Baerbock, President of the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, on February 24, 2026, during her press briefing at the United Nations Office in Geneva at the Palais des Nations, while emphasizing the necessity of defending human rights worldwide, referred to cases of violations of women’s rights in various countries, including Iran.
In part of her remarks, Annalena Baerbock said that girls are now being treated as second-class human beings, something that does not exist in international law. She also referred to a woman in Iran who was shot in the face simply for demonstrating peacefully…
In these statements, the President of the United Nations General Assembly, by placing the situation in Iran alongside other serious examples of human rights violations, described the shooting of a woman in Iran solely for peaceful protest as an attack on the fundamental rights of women.
These remarks were made in the context of her emphasis on the indivisibility of human rights and the necessity for the international community to stand up against violations of the rights of women and girls around the world.
