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Whores’ Day / Sex Workers’ Day 2026
International Whores’ Day / International Sex Workers’ Day, observed annually on June 2, honours sex workers and recognises the often exploitative nature of their working conditions.
The date commemorates the occupation of Église Saint-Nizier in Lyon by more than a hundred sex workers on June 2, 1975 to draw attention to their inhumane working conditions. It has been celebrated annually since 1976. In German, it is known as Hurentag (Whore’s Day) and in Spanish-speaking countries, it is entitled the Día Internacional de la Trabajadora Sexual (the International Day of the Sex Worker). In the 1970s, French police put sex workers under increasing pressure. The police repression forced them to work increasingly in secret. As a result, they had less protection and there was more violence against sex workers. After two murders and the unwillingness of the government to improve the situation, sex workers in Lyon occupied the Saint-Nizier Church and went on strike. The striking workers sang political chants and demanded decent working conditions and an end to social stigma. The police cleared the church after eight days. The event marks the starting point of an international movement of sex workers for sex workers’ rights.
#COP31 United Nations Climate Change Conference Antalya – November 2026
The 2026 United Nations Climate Change Conference / Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC, more commonly known as COP31, is to be held at the Expo Center in Antalya, Turkey, from 9 to 20 November 2026, it will be the 31st session of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
After a week of negotiations in November 2025, Turkey and Australia compromised by allowing Turkey to host, while Australian Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen will preside over negotiations. During COP31, heads of states will attend a World Leaders’ Summit in Antalya on November 11 and 12. The summit will take place on day three and four for the conference, in contrast to summits at previous COPs held on the first two days or immediately prior to the COP. Greenpeace said that coal subsidies in Turkey are a waste of money, greenhouse gas emissions by Turkey should be reduced, and called for a just transition to stop burning coal, strong adaptation policies and civil society participation. Academic İbrahim Özdemir has called for universities, civil society organizations, and climate activists to be given a “meeting and contribution platform”. The location was agreed a year beforehand, but at that time the UNFCCC secretariat was saying that admitting organizations to observe these climate change conferences would take longer than that due to lack of resources. However some non-governmental organisations in Turkey, such as nature conservation organization Yolda and the Turkish Foundation for Combating Soil Erosion can nominate people to observe as they have been admitted to previous such conferences. NGOs such as Urgewald have criticised the Environment and Climate Change Ministry for supporting coal power, and the proposed expansion of the coal-fired Cenal power station. An alternative thought influence in The Times of India suggests that Baklava diplomacy must strengthen sustainability through a lived experience and a host that can lead by example.
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Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics – publication
Mathematicians declare math a human endeavor amid AI threat, International Mathematical Union endorses warning about tech industry influence.
Mathematicians warned against rising tech industry influence in a declaration describing the many challenges that AI poses to mathematics research. The timing of the declaration comes two weeks after OpenAI publicized one of its AI models as having disproved an 80-year-old mathematical conjecture in geometry. The declaration was developed by a working group of 16 researchers over eight months following a conference held at Leiden University in the Netherlands in September 2025. Published on June 2, 2026, the resulting Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics has been endorsed by the International Mathematical Union—the international non-governmental organization that hosts conferences and oversees the most prestigious prizes in mathematics such as the Fields Medal.
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Week van de Mentale Gezondheid 2026
De Week van de Mentale Gezondheid vindt jaarlijks plaats in de eerste week van juni en staat in 2026 in het teken van ‘overbruggen’.
Iedereen wordt uitgenodigd verbinding te stimuleren. Verbinding tussen hoofd en hart, tussen jou en mij, tussen wij en zij, publiek en privaat, beleid en praktijk. Tussen toen, nu en later. Overbruggen om elkaar te begrijpen en samen te doen wat écht nodig is om als mens en als samenleving mentaal veerkrachtiger te worden.
2026-06-01, Lief dagboek
Maandag; Wat eten we vandaag?; Oorlog Middenoosten; A12 blokkade; Waarschuwingsstelsel; International Labour Conference; Zomer (Meteorologisch).
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#Zomer (Meteorologisch) noord / #Winter (Meteorologisch) zuid 2026
De zomer is een van de vier seizoenen, door de meteorologie gedefinieerd als de maanden juni, juli en augustus op het noordelijk halfrond van de Aarde, en december, januari en februari op het zuidelijk halfrond.
Om praktische redenen begint de meteorologische zomer eerder, op 1 juni op het noordelijk halfrond en op 1 december op het zuidelijk halfrond. Deze duurt dan tot 1 september respectievelijk 1 maart. De zomer kenmerkt zich op het noordelijk halfrond door relatief hoge temperaturen, langer daglicht en het zo nu en dan voorkomen van onweer. Verder is er in het eerste deel van de zomer veel bloeiende natuur. De zomer is ook het seizoen met de voor de meeste mensen langste vakantie van het jaar: de zomervakantie. Op het zuidelijk halfrond valt op hetzelfde moment een tegenovergestel
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Roadmap towards phasing out animal testing – adoption by EC
On 1 June 2026, the European Commission adopted the Roadmap towards phasing out animal testing for chemical safety assessments.
This comprehensive approach encompasses a wide range of legislative domains, including industrial chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and food additives, and outlines over 30 key recommendations to facilitate the transition to alternative testing methods. The European Union has a long-standing policy of replacing, reducing and refining animal testing (3Rs). Article 13 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union recognises the need to protect animals as sentient beings. Directive 2010/63/EU1 sets the goal of phasing out animal use for research and for regulatory purposes in the EU, as soon as scientifically possible. Many pieces of chemical legislation contain a requirement to use animal testing only as a last resort. The European Commission is preparing a “Roadmap Towards Phasing Out Animal Testing for Chemical Safety Assessments”. This will serve as a guiding plan for accelerating the path towards replacing, reducing and refining animal testing for the safety assessments of chemicals. The roadmap was announced in Communication C(2023)5041, which was published as a response to the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) “Save cruelty-free cosmetics – Commit to a Europe without animal testing”. In the communication, the Commission expressed its commitment to develop a roadmap that “will outline milestones and specific actions, to be implemented in the short to longer term, to reduce animal testing and that would be pre-requisites for a transition towards an animal-free regulatory system”. This response announces further elements that will accompany the roadmap and help reach its goals. Phasing out animal testing will require substantial time. For instance, there are currently no available approaches that are sufficient for developing and validating methods. As a result, the roadmap foresees an implementation phase for the years to come.
Stop reclames voor ongezond voedsel! – petitie
Bij tabak, alcohol en gokken zegt de overheid ons te willen beschermen, maar bij junkfood is het opeens onze “eigen keuze”.
Dit terwijl de junkfood-industrie ons eetgedrag bewust beïnvloed met reclames. Reclame is geen onschuldige keuze-informatie. Bedrijven steken er niet voor niets zoveel geld in: het werkt. Kinderen zijn daar al helemaal niet tegen opgewassen. Het Verenigd Koninkrijk liet zien dat bijvoorbeeld een overdags verbod op junkfoodreclame echt verschil maakt. De voedingsindustrie boekt recordwinsten, en de zorgkosten betalen wij met z’n allen. De overheid verzaakt haar plicht om de volksgezondheid te beschermen (Grondwet artikel 22). Deze petitie vraagt de minister van Volksgezondheid om een wettelijk verbod op reclame voor producten vol suiker, vet en zout, op tv, radio, internet en op straat, ook voor influencers.