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The world is losing the war against climate change, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres tells business leaders at the Davos forum, urging rapid action to prevent humanity being doomed. SOUNDBITE
Europe's top rights court says Switzerland is not doing enough to tackle climate change, in the first such ruling on the responsibility of states in curbing global warming. SOUNDBITE
Greta Thunberg and other environmental activists gather outside the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, northeastern France, which is due to rule in three separate cases to decide wether states are doing enough in the face of climate change. IMAGES
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, says that a projected imminent famine in war-torn Gaza "can and must be prevented". In a recorded statement, he warns that Israel's restrictions on the entry of aid and its ongoing attacks "may amount to the use of starvation as a method of war, which is a war crime". SOUNDBITE
The UN human rights chief Volker Türk decries the lack of accountability for the 2020 Beirut port blast, urging an international probe into the massive explosion that destroyed swathes of the city, in a speech to the United Nations Human Rights Council. "It may therefore be time to consider an international fact-finding mission to look into human rights violations related to this tragedy," says Volker Türk. SOUNDBITE