Human rights

It's not happening here but it is happening now

houtlust — Wed, 31 May 2006 21:19:00 GMT

This post can be seen at our new blog Osocio.
Read it here.

Or visit the Osocio homepage.

Which are the stories our children are growing with?

houtlust — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 20:55:00 GMT

This post has moved to our new blog Osocio. Read it here.

Or visit the Osocio homepage.

La mujer no es un objeto

houtlust — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 23:38:00 GMT

This campaign from the Oficina gubernamental Inmujeres (Mexico's National Women's Institute) passed many websites but not with the campaign ads and video.
Finally they are online.

The campaign - which also includes billboards and radio ads - shows the wide-mouthed sex dolls dressed as secretaries, sitting at desks or photocopiers as men leer at them or try to grope them.
"No woman should be treated like an object," a sombre-voiced narrator says in the background.
"Sexual harassment is not just demeaning, it's a crime."
Launched on International Women's Day, the campaign will run through mid-April, said Patricia Espinosa, head of the institute.

The campaign caused many controversy because it portrayed the mental image of women that the rapist and the abuser has.
While I'm making this post, Brief Blog also post about this campaign. He is quoting a Mexican newspaper where is written that this campaign spreads a confused message. Woman are not an object but on the other way a pornographic object is used.

Agency Olabuenaga Chemistri
Thanks to Nash and Noah for helping

Text in the tv-spot
Ninguna mujer debe ser tratada como un objeto. El acoso sexual es denigrante y es un delito.
No woman must be treated as an object. Sexual harassment is degrading and its a felony.

(Watch the tv-spot in wmv format here)

Text in the radio-spot
"Estoy aqui en la carcel porque me robe un coche"
"Soy Chucho y estoy aqui por homicidio"
"Soy el Licenciado Gomez y estoy en la carcel por acoso sexual, me gustaba mi asistente.."
La ley es clara, el acoso sexual es un delito, llama al (tel.). Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres, todo un sexenio defendiendo a las mujeres.

"I m in jail because I stole a car"
"Im Chucho and Im here for homicide"
"Im Mr. (with a degree) Gomez and Im in jail for sexual harassment, I liked my assistant.."
The law is clear, sexual harassment is a felony, call (tel.no). National Institute of Women, six years defending women.

(Listen to the radio-spot)

Nash from Mexico who helped me with translating the ads writes:
The funny thing is that about the time the campaign was launched, a coming mexican movie called "Sex, love and other perversions" ads were luanched too, and this ones have the dolls too, so they look alike."

Movieposter from Sex, love and other perversions:

More education for girls in islamic countries

houtlust — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 21:31:00 GMT

Adverbox posted this video today. It's the video version of the brilliant price winning ad (below) from Unicef Austria.
Copy: More education for girls in islamic countries

CD: Joachim Glawion, Patrik Partl
AD/Concept: Tolga Büyükdoganay
Text: Patrik Partl, Joachim Glawion
Director: Linus Ewers
Production Company: PPM Film

Related post (in Dutch)

I'm sorry Mr Bush

houtlust — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:58:00 GMT

But you're such a alluring subject.

This print ad from Amnesty International is one of the (Bronze) winners of the Asia Pacific Advertising Festival.
More about this festival later on.
Agency Saatchi & Saatchi
(via)

More Mr Bush: 1 2

Thank you

houtlust — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:03:00 GMT

Hard days for Mr. Bush on this blog :-) See these Romanian ads.
Lurking the internet for Czech Amnesty campaigns made by Leo Burnett I found these. Winner in the category Public Interest of the 2003 Epica Awards.
Copy is clear I think.

Child soldiers

houtlust — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 22:45:00 GMT

Adverbox got these great prints from the Czech Amnesty International department. Actually all campaigns from Amnesty are great.
I don't know from which year these prints came from but I don't care. The case of child soldiers is still a awfull topic.
Agency Leo Burnett

Change the way you look at women

houtlust — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 23:15:00 GMT

I searched a lot last week for campaigns about 8th March International Women's Day.
Hard to find but this video is a great one.

8th March. International Women's Day. Change the way you look at women.

Agency The Flea
(via via)

Can I get a right?

houtlust — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 21:47:00 GMT

Yesterday, march 6, a hitchhiking event started organised by Amnesty International Student Groups. Students are going to hitchhike to the border of Europe to express their concerns publicly about the human rights situation in Belarus.
The 10-day hitchhike campaign will be held on the road and during several stops, in the capitals Amsterdam, Berlin and Warsaw, and will end, 3 days before the elections in Belarus, on the 16th of March.

Belarus is the last dictatorship in Europe and is ruled by Alyaksandr Lukashenka since 1994. Young people in Belarus are trying hard to find ways to show their dissatisfaction with the current situation. Critical people were expelled from their universities, imprisoned or have been dissappeared.

You can follow this event on a dedicated blog: canigetaright.blogspot.com
More information here.

In december last year I posted about one of the most strongest campaigns I ever saw with the same goal: human rights in Belarus.
Organised by the Polish section of Amnesty International. On the poster you see a journalist who's mouth is taped.

Indifference makes you an accomplice

houtlust — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 23:20:00 GMT

Two tv-spots about domestic violence from Romania.
I don't know exactly was is the text about in the first one, but it's obvious that the sturdy boy swank about his father who knocked down the boy's mother.
Violenta se învata in familie. Violence is learned in the family.

The second one is about being a witness of domestic violence: indifference makes you an accomplice.
Agency McCann-Erickson Romania