Day: 18 February 2020

End It Movement’s Annual Global Campaign Kicks Off On Social Media To Bring Awareness And Shine A Light On Modern-Day Slavery

Stuart Mitchell

February 13 marked the END IT Movement‘s eighth annual ‘Shine A Light On Slavery Day’ – a day where celebrities, athletes, politicians, influencers, and Freedom Fighters alike come together to let the world know slavery still exists. END IT Movement is a coalition of the world’s leading organizations and everyday people united by the hope of putting an end to slavery and human trafficking in our lifetime. Since 2013, the movement has led the charge for raising awareness and rallying for change in an effort to end one of the…

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On 2nd Anniversary of Parkland, Florida Mass Shooting, “Gun Safety-Certified” Corporate Symbol Launched by Parents of Victim Joaquin Oliver, Survivor David Hogg and Stop Handgun Violence

Stuart Mitchell

Rather than privately mourn their son, Parkland victims Manuel and Patricia Oliver spent the second anniversary of their son’s murder in Boston today. They partnered with Stop Handgun Violence to announce a new corporate symbol that will enable businesses to show support for universal background checks and other common sense gun safety policies. The symbol will inform consumers and allow them to decide whether to support those companies and their products or services. The Olivers were joined by David Hogg, a Parkland survivor and co-founder of March for Our Lives,…

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RBS launches £1 billion Female Entrepreneurship Funding and announces targets to help create at least 50k new businesses by 2023

Stuart Mitchell

RBS has announced a new £1 billion in funding through NatWest to support female entrepreneurs in the UK to scale and grow – the largest intervention by a UK lender focused specifically on female-led businesses. The bank has also announced that it is setting a target to support and inspire 500K people to consider starting a business – of whom at least 60% will be female – in order to help create at least 50k new businesses by 2023. The Female Entrepreneurship Funding builds directly on a key finding from…

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PRCA Joins Advertising Association Climate Action Group

Stuart Mitchell

The Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA) has joined a consortium of organisations from the creative industries to address issues around climate change. The Advertising Association, working in partnership with ISBA and the IPA, has launched two new groups, following direction from its Council to coordinate full efforts from the industry on Climate Action.  The groups – CASG and the Climate Action Working Group (CAWG) – will be focused on three areas initially: The production of a report to measure the UK advertising industry’s current carbon footprint and what businesses are…

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UNESCO, FreePressUnlimited (FPU) and MoI, launched an initiative to protect the lives of journalists

Stuart Mitchell

Following the killing of two journalists in Basra on 10 January 2020, UNESCO Iraq Office and FreePressUnlimited (FPU) in cooperation with the Ministry of Interior and the national committee for the safety of journalists organized a meeting with Iraqi journalists to discuss the measures aimed to protect them in light of the latest incident. During the meeting, MoI representative Saad Maan, on behalf of the Minister of Interior, Yassin Al-Yasiri, launched the second hotline “171” to be the tool of contacting the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) by journalists in Iraq…

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