Internet cartoon cats speak out against #sextortion
By Tom Megginson on 17 October 2017Read moreThorn: Digital Defenders of Children is an American nonprofit organization dedicated to building technology to defend children from sexual abuse. They recently launched this social campaign and educational video, narrated by Canadian actor Shay Mitchell (of Pretty Little Liars) to...
26This Mumbai poet beats your ears about sexism
By Marc van Gurp on 3 September 2017Read moreWe have posted a lot about campaigns on rape culture and sexual abuse. And I thought we’d have seen it all. Until I encountered this slam poetry from Mumbai based poet Aranya Johar. Wow! The horrors of sexual abuse...
How can you make #SexEd more effective? Teach it as math!
By Tom Megginson on 29 May 2017Read moreHere’s an interesting campaign, by McCann Lima for Save the Children Peru. With the participation of schools, teachers, and parents’ groups, the campaign “hacked” the standard word-problems used in math class, by making them all about the challenges of being a...
Uncertain Terms campaign highlights risks of sexting
By Marc van Gurp on 19 April 2017Read moreEach year, the Canadian Children of the Street Society comes with a new chapter of their awareness campaign about online sexual exploitation. It is actually more than a campaign, it is a program named Predator Watch program. The aim is to prevent sexual...
Mexican penis seat spreads awareness of harassment on the metro
By Tom Megginson on 30 March 2017Read moreAdweek today featured a truly disturbing ambient marketing PSA on sexual harassment, which has gained infamy on English-language social media as the “penis seat.” This moulded. anatomically-correct male torso and crotch appears in the seating area of a car...
Scottish government declares revenge porn a crime scene
By Tom Megginson on 28 March 2017Read moreNew Scottish laws aimed at curbing the awful phenomenon of “revenge porn” could result in significant prison time for partners or ex-partners sharing intimate images without consent, according to the BBC. To raise awareness of the issue, Safer Scotland has produced a...
FGM is terrifying shocking, even with paper
By Marc van Gurp on 8 March 2017Read morePlan Belgium came with this video in the first week of February to take part in the fight against Female Genital Mutulation (FGM), with global activities on 6 February. The organisation worked with Mandy Smith, who became famous with her...
Porn site would rather you get your sex ed elsewhere
By Tom Megginson on 3 March 2017Read moreThe Salt Lake Tribune reports that when the State Legislature of Utah, USA, voted against adopting a comprehensive sex education program (to replace their abstinence-only curriculum) porn site xHamster decided to step in. On the week of February 6, xHamster began redirecting web traffic...
New successful abortion fund began with a single tweet
By Marc van Gurp on 29 January 2017Read moreThis video is the result of a remarkable spontaneous action which began with a tweet last week. It was a reaction on Donald Trump’s far-reaching anti-abortion measure, which cuts the 575 million funding of NGO’s that support women in lower-income countries...
HIV-positive people on treatment have a lot to pass on. But not HIV.
By Marc van Gurp on 23 November 2016Read moreThis new campaign from the well known French organisation AIDES fits in a foreseeable trend which synchronize with the development in the fight against HIV. The campaign, launched just a few days before World AIDS Day, brings the latest scientific insight:...
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