Month: January 2018

Another Silent Night: United Nations And Refugee Choir Re-Imagine Holiday Carol

Stuart Mitchell

In December, 32 young women stood in the heart of New York’s holiday festivities and performed a new take on the holiday classic, “Silent Night.” As people gathered for their performance in front of the Lotte New York Palace Hotel, they realized that the words to the familiar song had been changed with lyrics describing the pain and fear of those trapped in conflict areas around the world, and the hope and relief that can be provided by humanitarian aid.  “This is not your typical Silent Night,” said Nyawal, 23, a…

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New rule to ban harmful gender stereotypes next year

Stuart Mitchell

Speaking ahead of a reception at the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, Ella Smillie from the Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP), announced that a new rule will be introduced in the UK Advertising Codes next year to ban harmful gender stereotyping in advertising. The CAP/ASA goes into details on their website: The review by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) on harmful gender stereotyping in advertising, Depictions, Perceptions and Harm, published last summer, provided an evidence-based case for stronger regulation of ads that feature stereotypical gender roles or characteristics which can be harmful to…

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PENNY brings 9,000 people together for Christmas

Stuart Mitchell

German discount supermarket PENNY kicked off this years Christmas campaign with the slogan “Christmas. Time to reconcile”. In keeping with the strong sense of neighbourly values central to its ethos, the local supplier announced that it wanted to use this method of communication to help bring people together for Christmas 2017. As well as the company’s film “Der Weg” (The Path), which so far has over 15 million views nationally and internationally, the competition was built around PENNY’s forgive-me wine campaign (www.penny.de/versoehnung) and focused on the ultimate goal of re-connecting…

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Poverty Alliance Launch Scotland’s Naughty or Nice Christmas List

Stuart Mitchell

Scottish Charity, The Poverty Alliance have launched their Naughty or Nice Christmas list on their website: Who’s on Scotland’s nice list this Christmas? Following a year of ups and downs in the fight against poverty, anti-poverty campaigners have published naughty and nice lists ahead of Christmas.  Those on the nice list have taken significant steps to tackle poverty in Scotland this year, while those on the naughty list have some way to go before they receive a gift from Santa. The nice list The Scottish Parliament – in 2017 the…

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New #BehindEveryGreatCity campaign celebrates 100 years of women’s suffrage

Stuart Mitchell

Ahead of the centenary of the first women in the UK securing the right to vote, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has unveiled a major campaign to celebrate the role London played in the women’s suffrage campaign, to mark the progress that’s been made on women’s equality over the past 100 years and to drive gender equality across the capital. Sadiq Khan’s new #BehindEveryGreatCity campaign will champion the fact that it is the achievements and contributions of women, from all walks of life, which make cities like London great.…

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