What Happens When Activism Gets Animated

Chispa Productions has just wrapped The Animated Activist, an hour-long documentary about Firdaus Kharas’s No Excuses animation campaign against rape and sexual violence. For producers Randy […]

There Are No More Excuses

For decades Canadian Firdaus Kharas has been mass-communicating messages of intractable human rights; he’s seen unimaginable results of violations. Yet there’s one example that is still […]

UN Declaration On Violence Against Women Echoes The Objectives Of The Humorous Animated Campaign No Excuses

No Excuses campaign creator calls for greater efforts to prevent use of culture as a justification for violence. HOW NO EXCUSES WORKS: BACKGROUNDER An integrated multi-lingual […]

Can A Fuzzy Definition Increase Social Justice?

  We’ve just been through the United Nations-designated international days for cancer and zero tolerance for female genital mutilation. These are easy to understand because they […]

Why Risk-Taking Must Overcome Emotion In Development Aid

Malala Yousafzai or Bello Eniola: which 15-year-old girl is more likely to become the future face of international development? Malala is the young lady who was […]

How Behaviour Change Works in the Developing World

How Behaviour Change Works in the Developing World July 20, 2012 If real change helping people in the developing world emerge from the problems of poverty […]

United Nations takes on a Proactive Stance Against Domestic Violence with Firdaus Kharas’ No Excuses

United Nations takes on a Proactive Stance Against Domestic Violence with Firdaus Kharas’ No Excuses By LynnfromBC, published on Blogcritic.org — April 25, 2011 Last week, on […]

Welcome to Culture Shift

NEW GLOBAL CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND ABUSE LAUNCHED Targets 73 languages, 100 countries, 1 billion viewers UNITED NATIONS, New York: April 18, 2011 – FIRDAUS KHARAS, […]