by DISB | Jun 30, 2014 | Advertising, Advocacy, News, Petition
A resounding ‘Thank You’ to the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) for introducing new guidelines for fairness products advertisements. While we eagerly await the formalization of these guidelines let’s face the fact that these guidelines will...
by DISB | Jan 18, 2014 | Advertising, Advocacy, Beauty Ideals, Discrimination, News, Petition
WOW’s petition on Change.org against Fair and Handsome ad garners a one on one meet with the top brass of EMAMI. January 18th, 2014, Kolkatta — Women of Worth (WOW) , the Chennai based NGO behind the Dark is Beautiful Campaign, was invited today to a one on one...
by DISB | Nov 15, 2013 | Advocacy, News, Petition
Dark is Beautiful is celebrating 1.2 Billion Shades of Skin Colour on Saturday, November 16, in MUMBAI. Join the colour madness at these locations: Point 1: GATEWAY OF INDIA. Pick up at 9:00am Point 2: MARINE DRIVE. Pick up at 9:45am Point 3: CHOWPATTY. Pick up at...
by DISB | Oct 30, 2013 | Advocacy, Discrimination, Petition
You’ve probably asked yourself: What is Thunderclap? Thunderclap is a new website that will allow you to join a group of people and tweet or post a facebook status in support of Dark is Beautiful at the EXACT SAME TIME, creating a wave of attention. ...
by DISB | Oct 1, 2013 | Discrimination, Petition
By Kavitha Emmanuel | Founder and Director of WOW It’s amazing to see how the Dark is Beautiful Campaign has gone viral. The WOW team was taken by storm. We are grateful to all our supporters for standing up with us to address this age-old belief that ‘fair alone is...
by DISB | Jul 31, 2013 | Advertising, Beauty Ideals, Discrimination, Petition
By Pamposh Dhar | Dark is Beautiful campaigner We are bombarded by print ads and TV commercials all day long. So much so that we hardly pay heed to them any more. But when “King Khan” himself shows up on the TV screen in our home, we sit up and take notice. He is...
