Scope launches campaign for equality as half of disabled people feel excluded from society

Disability charity Scope has launched a campaign for equality and is urging everyone to show their support after new research revealed half of disabled people feel excluded from society. The findings have been published today in a report by Scope which reveals how undervalued and disconnected from society many disabled people feel. Based on Opinium polling of 2,000 working age disabled adults, the research reveals:   Two in five (41%) working age disabled people don’t feel valued by society Less than half (42 per cent) think the UK is a good…

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Pepsico Fulfills Its Promise to Latin American Women and Launches “Women With Purpose” in a 6th Country

As proof of its 2016 commitment made towards women, PepsiCo Latin America and its partner FUNDES, are officially launching the ‘Women with Purpose’ program in the Dominican Republic, the sixth country in the region to join this initiative after Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, and Venezuela. This program is part of PepsiCo’s global Performance with Purpose agenda, which aims to benefit more than 12.5 million women and girls around the world by 2025. ‘Women with Purpose’ develops the business and personal capacities of Latin American women, through in-person and virtual training,…

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ACLU and Workers Take On Facebook for Gender Discrimination in Job Ads

The ACLU, Outten & Golden LLP, and the Communications Workers of America filed charges with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against Facebook and 10 other employers for unlawfully discriminating on the basis of gender by targeting their job ads on Facebook to male Facebook users only, excluding all women and non-binary users from receiving the ads. The charges were filed on behalf of three female workers, CWA and the hundreds of thousands of female workers CWA represents, and a class of millions of women allegedly denied information on job opportunities…

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Cannes Lions announces distribution of €323,280 in funds to projects advised by the United Nations

Following the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals Lions at the 2018 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, the inaugural Grand Prix winner, The Palau Legacy Project, was last night honoured with the “Champion for Humanity” Award from the We Are All Human Foundation. The Award was presented during the We Are All Human Foundation & Global GoalsCast UN General Assembly Kick-Off Reception of the UN’s Global Goals Week, a reception to gather a coalition of champions and celebrate progress and key initiatives that made a difference over the last…

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Ad Council Announces Most Extensive Rebrand in its 75-Year History

The Ad Council, America’s leading non-profit organization dedicated to driving social change, announced today its most significant rebrand in its 75-year history. This includes an evolution in how it works with corporate brands to address the country’s most pressing social issues, an expansion of its content creation model, leveraging technological innovations that advance communications for social causes, as well as a new brand platform and visual identity (including a new logo) created by WPP branding agency Superunion. Since the organization’s founding, the Ad Council has been at the forefront of…

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