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'''Firdaus Kharas''' (b. 1955) is a Canadian television producer.

== Background ==
Kharas was born in [[Calcutta]] before moving to the United States in 1973 and then to Canada in 1978.{{citation needed|date=December 2019}} He received an undergraduate degree from [[Thiel College]] and a Masters from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at [[Carleton University]].{{citation needed|date=December 2019}} His early careers were as Executive Director of the [[United Nations Association in Canada]] then as policy advisor (Immigration and Refugees) for [[Barbara McDougall]], Canada's Minister of Employment and Immigration.. In 1978, he moved to Canada{{citation needed|date=December 2019}}. He created Chocolate Moose Media in 1995 to produce animated [[public service announcement]] videos.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/10/talking-condoms-make-safe-sex-campaigns-acceptable-in-conservative-countries/280616/ | publisher = [[The Atlantic]] | last = Morin | first = Roc | date = 18 October 2013 | title = Talking Condoms Make Safe Sex Campaigns Acceptable in Conservative Countries}}</ref>

== ''The Three Amigos and other World Health and Justice C'' PSA campaigns ==
In 2004 his first major PSA series, call, Kharas produced [[The Three Amigos Campaign]], promo which advocated the use of condoms to stop the spread of HIV/ and AIDS.  <ref>{{cite web|last=Three Amigos, one message to the US; stop spread of HIV|title=Independent|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/three-amigos-one-message-to-the-us-stop-spread-of-hiv-564284.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Firdaus Kharas creates animated films with a strong social impact|title=Globe and Mail|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/firdaus-kharas-creates-animated-films-with-a-strong-social-impact/article1241122}}</ref>It was translated into 45 languages that reached 150 countries.  “It dares to override cultural differences and address a highly sensitive issue currently affecting all cultures,” wrote The campaign won a 2006 [[Peabody Award]].<ref>{{cite web|last="Three Amigos" win Peabody Award|title=Screen Africa|url=https://www.screenafrica.com/2007/06/07/film/three-amigos-win-peabody-award}}</ref>

Of the translations, a [[University of Ottawa]] professor Luisa von Flotow in her study of the series’ translationexplained that “It dares to override cultural differences and address a highly sensitive issue currently affecting all cultures.”<ref>{{cite web|last=The (Globalized) Three Amigos: Translating and Disseminating HIV/AIDS Prevention Discourse|title=Von Flotow|url=https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/ttr/2005-v18-n2-ttr1679/015770ar}}</ref> The campaign won a 2006 [[Peabody Award]].<ref>{{cite web|last="Three Amigos" win Peabody Award|title=Screen Africa|url=https://www.screenafrica.com/2007/06/07/film/three-amigos-win-peabody-award}}</ref>  ⏎
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Other projects have included [[malaria]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Infect! Infect! Kill Humans with Malaria|title=Macleans|url=https://archive.macleans.ca/article/2008/5/5/infect-infect-kill-humans-with-malaria}}</ref>, sexual and domestic violence,<ref>{{cite web|last=Social Media Campaign to take on Domestic Abusers|title=Global Issues|url=http://www.globalissues.org/news/2011/04/19/9331}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/firdaus-khar(contracted; show full)
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