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Globally, international donors and UN agencies worked closely with national governments, tallying the exact needs for massive polio immunization campaigns aimed at reaching hundreds of millions of children.
African heads of state have personally launched polio campaigns synchronized across several countries, vaccinating tens of millions of children over a few days.
In much the same way that cigarette companies shifted their focus to the developing world when regulators clamped down on their marketing practices in America, fast-food companies seem to be trying to capitalize on those portions of the global consumer base that have little exposure to health campaigns in their native languages.
Indeed, the fast-food industry may have greater reach in customers’ native languages than heath-education campaigns do.
And, as US marketing campaigns focus on first-generation consumers – those raised on Big Macs abroad, without knowledge of the associated health risks – some members of minority groups now spend a substantial portion of their disposable income at fast-food restaurants.
In the Czech Republic, a reformist government was elected in 2006, and in Hungary, political divisions rather than reform fatigue dominates electoral campaigns.
To criticize anticorruption campaigns is risky, because words can be twisted to imply indifference.
More flexible pension arrangements, legal reforms, and media and education campaigns aimed at shifting employers’ perceptions of older workers will allow individuals to keep working for longer.
During his successful campaigns, he said whatever it took to win votes; during his three terms in office, he used the same tactic to form coalitions.His only agenda was to protect or advance his own business interests.
The Return of RepressionBERLIN – Governments around the world are taking draconian steps to suppress civil-society organizations, with measures ranging from restrictive laws and bureaucratic burdens to smear campaigns, censorship, and outright repression by intelligence agencies or police.
Russian leaders also have a long history of agitation and propaganda, or “agitprop” as their Soviet predecessors called the overt and covert campaigns to shape public opinion in foreign countries.
Political parties in France, Switzerland, and the Netherlands (to name a few) have run successful campaigns that scapegoat immigrants.
If anti-corruption campaigns are to be seen as effective, they must be fair and transparent.
Given this, campaigns for European integration should not be limited to a rote affirmation of the benefits the EU has brought to its members, much less to efforts to appease Euroskeptics.
Moreover, if Russia can interfere so thoroughly in the US democratic process, just imagine what it has been doing in Europe, where we still do not know who financed some of the online advertising campaigns in recent national elections and referenda.
To be credible and effective, decriminalization must be combined with robust prevention campaigns.
The steep and sustained drop in tobacco consumption in recent decades shows that public information and prevention campaigns can work when based on messages that are consistent with the experience of those whom they target.
The US presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump have both made opposition to trade agreements a key plank of their campaigns.
Non-governmental organizations working for social improvement can, and sometimes do, find ways to draw attention to their campaigns through soccer.
Others returned to their home countries – from Egypt to the Philippines – to wage terror campaigns against what they viewed as Western-tainted governments.
Some have already been forced to do so, and many could conceivably be targeted in connection with ongoing campaigns to draw international attention to various human-rights issues ahead of the Olympics.
Building on this momentum, the campaigns for debt relief, trade reform, and increasing aid to poor countries have gained traction.
Since 2012, there has been nearly a fivefold increase in the number of volunteers involved in mobilizing communities during immunization campaigns.
India can now wind down its polio-eradication campaigns, but still maintain its polio-free status.
He has revived the use of ideological campaigns, akin to those used during the Cultural Revolution, such as a requirement that Party members study The Collected Works of Jiang Zemin .
The populist campaigns in the major referendums this year have differed in important respects.
After the long and painful campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, I understand every impulse to stay clear of the turmoil, to watch but not to intervene, to ratchet up language but not to engage in the hard, even harsh business of changing reality on the ground.
By the 1970’s, however, advertising campaigns targeted “liberated” women, telling them that smoking was not only acceptable, but desirable.
But ever since George W. Bush included these ideas as part of his democracy-promotion campaigns, European Socialists have become more wary of them.
Much of the history of the two centuries since Beethoven composed his opera has centered on that quest for freedom: the fight against colonial powers, the campaigns for basic human rights, the resistance to modern totalitarian and authoritarian regimes.
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