Are you also getting tired of having to buy a new phone every 2nd year because it’s programmed to stop working, and do you secretly wish there was a more ethical alternative to your current use of electronics? Introducing Fairphone: The world’s first ethical smartphone – fairer for the environment, fairer for the people who make it, …
For many people Aleppo seems far away, and it’s difficult to comprehend what exactly is happening in Syria these days. Living in, Denmark, one of the so called ‘happiest’ countries in the world, it is especially hard to understand how it must be to live every day in a war zone, just hoping to survive …
Domestic violence is one of those topics – we know we should talk about it, but we simply just don’t. We feel too uncomfortable around it and we would rather sweep it under the rug than being confronted with it. DVNSW wanted to change this stigma by raising awareness and get people talking. So a day …
After 30 years of campaigning HIV doesn’t make the headlines anymore, but the stigma of HIV remains. Many still wouldn’t shake hands with an HIV positive person, and don’t even mention accidentally drinking from the same cup! With the fear of getting fired from their jobs or rejected by friends and loved ones, it’s no wonder people …
This is cool. You can’t help but love these bold and charming women, who’s taking an aim at the male dominated culture in Saudi Arabia. The video’s low-key production and tongue-in-cheek tone of voice brings freshness to the women empowerment movement and the video has for sure racked up some international attention with millions of …
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In December 2016 Helsinki Police department launched a two week outdoor campaign to increase awareness of domestic violence and encourage people to report if they witnessed any acts of violence. The campaign was triggered by calls to 112 (equal to 911 in the US), and in areas where an emergency call had been made, the posters …
With its latest makeover – the evolution of the doll – Barbie went from being a debated cultural icon in decline to becoming a change agent speaking up for female empowerment and body ideals. After four years of declining sales Mattel introduced three new bodytypes (Tall, Curvy and Petite) for their iconic barbie doll in an attempt to …
Children of the World created a classic piece of advertising that Marshall McLuhan would have been proud of – the medium in this case, really is the message. With the insight that many street children in India who sell newspapers and magazines on street corners are illiterate, Children of the World played on that sad …
As a great way to discourage people from printing out documents unnecessarily, the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) launched a downloadable app that would let you save documents as a WWF file. This ‘.wwf’ file extension saves the document as an unprintable PDF. Thus, by sending a WWF file to another person, or someone at another …
After learning that a stray dog is put down every hour in Australia because they aren’t adopted, Pedigree decided to do something about it. They realised that the issue wasn’t that people weren’t interested, it was that when a dog’s story was told personally, it became much more powerful. In order to tell these stories, …
