The European Commission released the results of its seventh evaluation of the Code of Conduct on countering illegal hate speech online. This year's results unfortunately show a decrease in companies' notice-and-action results: the number of notifications reviewed by the companies within 24 hours dropped as compared to the last two monitoring exercises, from 90.4% in 2020, to 81% in 2021, and 64.4% in 2022.

Today, the European Commission opened a public consultation for the Fitness Check of EU consumer law on digital fairness.

Organisation of DG JUST 2023 Christmas event - JUST/2021/PR/CADM/0201

16 November 2022

No. JUST/2022/OP/0011 (internal ref. JUST/2022/PR/REM/RIGH/0020)

Madrid, 26 October 2022. The 5th UfM Ministerial Meeting on Strengthening the Role of Women in Society was held today in Madrid. It was hosted by the Minister of Gender Equality of Spain, Irene Montero, with the presence of the European Commissioner for Equality, Helena Dalli and the UfM Secretary General, Nasser Kamel.

No. JUST/2022/OP/0008 (internal reference: JUST/2022/PR/JACC/CRIM/0001)

On 14 October the Commission published a report on the application of data protection rules for EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies.

On 7 October 2022, President Biden signed an Executive Order on ‘Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities'.

This year, the Slovenian Charter put particular focus on the role of women in the workplace and organised two separate events together with the Diversity Charter Croatia on the topic.

Besides the events organized by Charter signatories to promote inclusion & diversity at workplace, events to support LGBT+ community and D&I conference with Charter presentation, the Slovak Charter organised specific happenings on Women in Leadership and the impact the war in Ukraine has on our attitude towards refugees.

Last year we started to have Pepp Hours, where we meet for an hour to inform and inspire each other, to be prepared for Diversity Month. This year we hade Jana Kukuckova from the EU Commission. She inspired us, how to use the Diversity Month material. We also find it useful to give our members a feeling that they are a part of something big.

On the occasion of the EU Diversity Month, the Romanian Diversity Charter organized o range of actions with the aim to engage Charter’s signatories in the celebration of the second edition of the EU Diversity Month in Romania, by creating at the same time a solid ground for debating and informing about the benefits of diversity and inclusion at the workplace.

The European Diversity Month 2022 brought with it new exciting partnerships and milestones!

The Polish Diversity Charter celebrated the European Diversity Month as part of the year-round celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Diversity Charter in Poland, coordinated by the Responsible Business Forum.

During the European Diversity Month (in the run-up to the Dutch Diversity Day on October 4th 2022), SER Diversiteit in Bedrijf (Dutch Diversity Charter) organized an Inspiration session together with their partners a few weeks ago. The central question of the session was: How do we ensure that difference will enrich us?

This year Fondazione Sodalitas - as promoter of Italian Diversity Charter -, developed different initiatives during the European Diversity Month, the annual event held in May and organised by the European Commission to raise awareness of diversity and inclusion in the workplace and societies.

The Diversity Month 2022 organised by the EU Diversity Charter Hungary was joined by numerous Charter signatories and partners, so Hungary had a colorful programme of 55 events to offer (2021: nearly 30). 38 organizers of 55 events engaged with further 86 co-organizers and speakers and involved 10000 participants to spend 135 hours on diversity and inclusion and its subtopics.

This year we celebrated the European Diversity Month through activities with an experiential and interactive content.

May 18 marked the celebration of the EU Diversity Month in Spain, a great success in terms of visibility and communication!