The campaign is inspired by data visualizations from Ed Hawkins, a climate scientist at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom and a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report.
22/06/2019
Show Your Stripes
20 June 2019 (WMO)* — Broadcast meteorologists and climate scientists are uniting on June 21 – the Summer/Winter Solstice – to encourage people around the world to #ShowYourStripes to build awareness of the extent of climate change.
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22/06/2019
Samarkand, on the Silk Road
22/06/2019
New International Labour standard to Combat Violence, Harassment, at Work Agreed
Human Wrongs Watch
The Centenary International Labour Conference has adopted a new Convention and Recommendation to combat violence and harassment in the workplace.

GENEVA, 21 June 2019 (ILO)* – A new Convention and accompanying Recommendation to combat violence and harassment in the world of work have been adopted by the International Labour Conference (ILC).
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22/06/2019
131 Refugees Evacuated Out of Libya to Niger, amidst Ongoing Conflict in Tripoli
A Somali couple with their two-week-old baby await evacuation to Niger at the Gathering and Departure Facility in Tripoli. © UNHCR/Mohamed Alalem
The evacuees were from Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan, and included 65 children under the age of eighteen. Some of the group were previously held in detention centres for more than a year.
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