UN Women announces global intergenerational campaign to bring women’s rights and empowerment to the forefront

To mark the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, considered the blueprint on women’s rights and empowerment, UN Women today announced its new multigenerational campaign, “Generation Equality: Realizing women’s rights for an equal future”. In 2020, it will be 25 years since world leaders adopted the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, which set out how to remove the systemic barriers that hold women back from equal participation in all areas of life, whether in public or in private. Developed at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing,…

Breeze And Mullenlowe Singapore Launch Campaign To Reduce Screen Time Among Children

Unilever’s Breeze laundry detergent has collaborated with MullenLowe Singapore to launch a campaign encouraging Singaporean parents to swap their children’s electronic devices for the outdoors. Recent studies have found that Singaporean children spend about 5 hours a day online and in contrast, spend less than 30 minutes outdoors daily. As mobile devices are increasingly preferred for children’s entertainment, education and even interaction, screen time is expected to continue rising at the expense of time spent outdoors. The campaign by Breeze and MullenLowe Singapore presents a sobering take on what it…

Bayer Launches Test Your Cancer Campaign Empowering Patients to See the Real Picture through Genomic Cancer Testing

Bayer announces the launch of Test Your Cancer, a global educational campaign that harnesses the creative power of imagination to help cancer patients better understand that genomic cancer testing is a crucial step in a diagnosis, painting a more precise picture of a person’s individual cancer Only 25 percent of cancer patients and caregivers report discussing genomic cancer testing with their doctor.  The results of genomic cancer testing can identify changes in DNA, known as genomic alterations, within cancer cells that determine how a tumor behaves or why it grows.…

Steadfast Collective launch £5,000 website giveaway to support a local organisation

Southampton web agency, Steadfast Collective, are celebrating their fourth birthday by giving away a website worth £5,000 to a local charity, small business or non-profit organisation in Hampshire. Having been through the business start-up phase as a company, Steadfast Collective know the pressures charities,  small businesses, and non-profits face in trying to build an online presence without breaking the bank. That’s why, for their fourth birthday, they have launched a giveaway supporting the work of one of these organisations within Hampshire, with a website, up to the value of £5,000.…

CIT and Operation HOPE Celebrate National Small Business Week and Introduce Launch and Grow

CIT Group Inc., in partnership with the nonprofit Operation HOPE, has introduced the next facet of its Launch and Grow initiative, a 12-week HOPE Inside program aimed at empowering women small business owners in New York City and Los Angeles.  Building upon last year’s ten-part small business educational video series, the 2019 Launch and Grow program kicks off during National Small Business Week and includes a series of in-person workshops and classes for small business owners. Classes will focus on key topics such as maintaining strong personal credit, accessing capital, and…