We have 234 blogposts in the field of Abuse.
Related Pinterest board: Abuse & Violence. Related categories: Violence, Women’s Issues.
Keywords: Domestic Violence, Rape, Pedophilia, Bullying, Harassment.
Transit anti-harassment campaign focuses on bystander intervention
By Tom Megginson on 6 May 2015Read moreNote: This is my own work, so I’m sharing it here simply as an example of a social marketing strategy. Feel free to critique it in the comments. (Reposted in edited form from our agency blog, Change Marketing.) Three years...
0These anti-abuse PSAs shock you with what you don’t see
By Tom Megginson on 16 April 2015Read moreTRIGGER WARNING: IMPLIED CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE These videos for DIF Zapopan, a Mexican nonprofit, are hard to watch. Even though they’re equally difficult to see. Created by Publicis México, they use special effects to reduce the actors to shadowy forms. These...
These human statues depict a scene you wouldn’t be able to ignore
By Arbie Baguios on 14 April 2015Read moreIf you’ve lived in a tourist-flocked city long enough, you’ve probably learned how to ignore the throng of street performers and their audience on your daily commute. Human statues are particularly easy not to pay attention to (they won’t...
One in Five and the Fear of Facebook
By Marc van Gurp on 6 April 2015Read moreThis is the newest work from Cuban designer and artist Erik Ravelo, the man behind a lot or remarkable social campaigns like Los Intocables and #tooyoungtodrink. It is personal work about rape and the fact that one in five women...
Silent no more – Aboriginal women in Canada
By Tatjana Vukic on 22 March 2015Read moreI didn’t know much about this topic. My Osocio colleague, Tom, brought me into the cold water of information and I am very grateful and honored that I may post about Aboriginal women in Canada. Indigenous women are...
Kyrgyz women unbind themselves from domestic violence
By Marc van Gurp on 7 March 2015Read more“Equal rights – joint success” is the first women’s rights campaign from Kyrgyzstan. It was created for the Open Line Public Foundation with a group of young media professionals from the country located in Central Asia. The Russian Laboratory for Social Advertising had the...
You are implicated by this new sexual assault PSA #WhoWillYouHelp
By Tom Megginson on 6 March 2015Read more**Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault** Here’s one that I think gets social marketing right: This new campaign from the Government of Ontario, Canada, doesn’t target the perpetrators of sexual violence, but instead reminds bystanders that they have a responsibility to...
Why making #TheDress into a partner violence PSA was a bad idea
By Tom Megginson on 6 March 2015Read moreWhen a consumer brand like Oreo takes advantage of a realtime marketing meme or moment, we celebrate the agility of the marketing team. So it’s understandable that social marketers want to get in on the action. It’s not always...
Innocence in Danger – Sweet boy naked in the shower
By Tatjana Vukic on 28 February 2015Read moreThis video is for me, honestly, one of the most terrifying in this year. Very smart. Very direct. But highly effective? I don’t think so. The new video of Innocence in Danger (Agency: glow) tries to intervene preventively. To...
Young people who learn the hard way
By Reuben Turner on 31 January 2015Read moreA powerful new film from the UK’s Princes Trust, asking people to think again about employing young people from difficult backgrounds. The ad is backed by a LinkedIn profile, set up to represent a homeless young woman looking for a...