"United in Diversity - a common challenge" EU Diversity Charters’ Annual Forum 2019, Brussels - Main contents
| date | May 16, 2019 |
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| city | Brussels, Belgium |
| location | Hotel Le Plaza, Brussels  |
| organisation | European Commission (EC) i |
Employment and social rights, Justice and citizens’ rights,
The European Commission is organising this year’s annual forum to promote diversity and inclusion at the workplace.
Since the principle of equal pay for men and women introduced in the Treaty of Rome in 1957 and gender equality directives adopted since the 1970s, after almost 20 years of the Race Equality and Employment Equal Treatment Directives, 10 years of the voluntary initiative network of the EU Platform of Diversity Charters and four years of the Strategic engagement for gender equality 2016-2019 and European Commissions’ List of Action to advance LGBTI equality, a lot has happened in the field of equality, non-discrimination and diversity in Europe.
It is time to take stock, how these and other developments have influenced equality in Europe and at the workplace, to see how can we all advance the discourse of diversity and inclusion, how role models can make a change and what is needed from the leaders.
The Annual Forum will bring together around 200 diversity experts, businesses, civil society and public sector representatives.
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The European Commission is the executive body of the EU and runs its day-to-day business. It is made up of the College of Commissioners, 27 European Commissioners, one for each member state, who are each responsible for one or several policy areas. In addition, the 'Commission' also refers to the entire administrative body that supports the Commissioners, consisting of the Directorates-General and the Services.
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