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A director at LEADERSHIP Media Group, Mr Abraham Nda-Isaiah, has urged Africans to embrace cultural diversity, mutual respect, and unity as tools to strengthen relationships and overcome divisions across the continent.

The participants at a John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum debate last week on “diversity” and “pluralism” in higher education were clearly suitably matched.

Kevin Roberts is president of the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank. His group published Project 2025, a 900-page policy document that has heavily influenced President Trump’s second-term agenda and pushed for the end of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.

A new Statistics Canada report says Canada is becoming less accepting of gender diversity.

In 2025, 77 per cent of women and 70 per cent of men surveyed said they agreed or strongly agreed that people should be free to express their gender however they choose.

That’s a drop from 2018, when 85 per cent of women and 78 per cent of men agreed.

Sept 17 (Reuters) - Starbucks (SBUX.O), opens new tab agreed on Thursday to settle a discrimination lawsuit by the state of Florida, pledging not to ​adopt race- or sex-based quotas or preferences in hiring, ‌promotion and pay decisions.

Starbucks and Florida's Republican Attorney General James Uthmeier jointly announced the settlement of a lawsuit filed by the state last ​December.

Mastering Diversity Conference brings hundreds together in Cardiff and launches next chapter of youth enterprise

CARDIFF — Hundreds of delegates from communities, businesses and public services came together at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama on 10 September for the Mastering Diversity Conference 2026, exploring how fair access, representation and partnership can change lives across Wales.

The United States Department of State has released the statistical breakdown of prospective applicants registered for the DV-2026 Diversity Visa programme, commonly known as the Green Card Lottery.

According to the department, the Kentucky Consular Center registered about 129,516 prospective applicants, including selected entrants and their spouses and children, from 20,822,624 qualified entries submitted during the 2024 application period.

CEO Women Europe is a new initiative launched in June of this year to boost partnerships between Europe, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region. Kate Moody meets with Sandrine El Khodry, president of this new platform and also Executive Vice President for Global Sales and Marketing at Alcatel Lucent Enterprise.

All seven members of BTS posted the same message last week to their Instagram accounts: They would not submit their new album, ARIRANG, for consideration at the 2027 Grammy Awards.

"We hope our music can be heard and loved for what it is, rather than being divided by region or language," they wrote.

CEO Women Europe is a new initiative launched in June of this year to boost partnerships between Europe, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region. Kate Moody meets with Sandrine El Khodry, president of this new platform and also Executive Vice President for Global Sales and Marketing at Alcatel Lucent Enterprise.

POLICE forces have spent a whopping £631million on diversity, equality and inclusion programmes since the murder of George Floyd, according to a new report.

The cash could have funded around 2,000 extra frontline officers every year or 8.3 million hours of policing, according to Policy Exchange.

As part of the United Nations Global Compact's SDG Innovation Accelerator for Young Professionals, a cohort of young professionals from Essentra, the global manufacturer and distributor of essential industrial components, has presented a proposal to address manufacturing's diversity and skills gap. The proposal was pitched today in London, where Essentra CEO Scott Fawcett and ESG Director Jennifer Spence were both in attendance.

Official figures on the diversity of the judiciary have once again revealed sluggish progress – with female and ethnic minority representation rising but the number of solicitor-judges shrinking. The proportion of black judges has effectively stalled.