FCB Inferno Develops Campaign to Tackle Forced Marriage for the Home Office

FCB Inferno’s latest work targeting forced marriage for the Home Office. The agency was briefed to develop a campaign targeting perpetrators, victims and bystanders, to educate them on what makes a forced marriage. The campaign aims to reduce the number of forced marriages in the UK by challenging, empowering and inspiring communities to change perception and drive preventative action.  The campaign approach has been developed based on research with the target audience and consultation with key partners and stakeholders. Research identified a knowledge gap about the non-physical actions of cohesion…

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10 of my favourite International Women’s Day campaigns

I think I am just about caught up on the International Women’s Day backlog. It’s been so great to see so many brilliant campaign so here’s 10 of my favourite campaigns – in no particular order. Sense New York look to #CelebrateWomen for International Women’s Day IRC release film showing 8 steps we can take to support women and girls FCB Inferno Launches ‘Queen Rules’ to Challenge Gender Bias With Playing Cards FCB Amsterdam and Wefilm launch It Won’t Stick campaign for International Women’s Day Barbie(R) Honors Global Role Models…

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Home Office launches anti-knife crime campaign

The Home Office has today launched a new advertising campaign to reduce knife crime among young people. By using real-life stories of young people who made the decision not to carry knives, the #knifefree campaign aims to highlight the consequences of carrying a knife and to inspire young people to pursue positive alternatives. Serious Violence Strategy The campaign forms part of the government’s forthcoming Serious Violence Strategy, which will set out action to tackle serious violence by placing new emphasis on steering young people away from crime while continuing to…

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FCB Inferno’s #QueenRules campaign continues with provocative new film

FCB Inferno, the agency behind This Girl Can, continue their #QueenRules initiative with a film that raises important questions about what we subconsciously teach children about gender. The social experiment film aimed to see how adults would deal with gender bias when the cards are on the table. Would they blindly teach children that boys are better than girls? Or would they change the rules? Inspired by a real conversation with a five-year-old girl about why Kings were ‘better’ than Queens, we asked adults to teach a small girl a…

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FCB Inferno Launches ‘Queen Rules’ to Challenge Gender Bias With Playing Cards

To support International Women’s Day today, FCB Inferno, the agency behind Sport England’s ‘This Girl Can’, is launching Queen Rules – a new way to play cards, where Queen outranks King. This campaign is designed to get the conversation about gender equality on the table. With support from Unibet, the campaign will launch with simultaneous live events and tournaments of Queen Rules poker on March 8th in London, Stockholm, Malta and more to be announced. A social experiment film, created in partnership with production company Archer’s Mark, will be released…

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