Ambassador Mai Phan Dung (R), Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the United Nations (UN), World Trade Organisation, and other international organisations in Geneva  (Photo: VNA)

Delivering a speech at the dialogue on the UN General Secretary’s report on human rights and climate change as part of the 57th session of the UN Human Rights Council, Dung affirmed that climate change has left severe impacts on the enjoyment of basic human rights.

Typhoon Yagi hammering in the Philippines, China, and Vietnam, and floods in Bangladesh, he said, were vivid illustrations for the damaging influence of the extreme weather patterns, elaborating they not only created great human loss but also forced the people to leave their homes, and destroyed infrastructure, affecting long-term economic development.

The 57th session of the UN Human Rights Council, the last regular meeting of this year lasting for five weeks, features various programs, including six discussions on economic, cultural and social rights.