Delegates hold a minute's silence after a deadly 6.8 magnitude earthquake in central Morocco at the opening of the 54th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on September 11, 2023. Climate change is causing human rights emergencies in many countries, the UN rights chief said on Monday, stressing the need to fight impunity for those who "plunder our environment". Speaking to the UN Human Rights Council, Volker Turk pointed to recent examples of the "environmental horror that is our global planetary crisis". He described a visit to Basra, Iraq, where date palms once lined the canals, but now "drought, scorching heat, extreme pollution and rapidly depleting fresh water supplies have created a barren landscape of rubble and dust." human rights situation," he said in his speech at the opening of the 54th session of the Council in Geneva. (Agence France-Presse)