Hasta La Creative!

The recently much debated Red Cross (youth) campaign has been pulled after a discussion with Red Cross headquarters in Geneva last Thursday. You can see the previous posts here; Red Cross campaign compares Chinese human right violations to olympic sports (16th June 2008) and a follow-up posted by the Red Cross Youth Sweden here; Red Cross Youth campaign for human rights (16th July 2008).

The campaign was first posted june 16th here on Adland, and like the (very similar) Amnesty International – After the Olympics campaign (posted 14th of March 2008) it didn’t receive much attention at all, until about month later (12th July) when a new adgrunt – whole9yards – spotted something wrong with the images and left a comment about it. The photos in the campaign were shot in Nepal, and not in China.

The campaign then quickly took on a life on it’s own, appearing in forums such as Anti-CNN.com, HK Yahoo.com, bbs.hdpu.edu.cn, and even spawning facebook groups like this one. For the extra curious who can’t read chinese, you might find the worldlingo translator useful when trying to make out what is going on in some of those threads.

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