Our commitment to equity shows up globally, and we're were pleased to have signed on to Business in the Community Race at Work Charter, Disability Confident, and Audeliss and INvolve’s open letter regarding Black Lives Matter in the U.K. Our Channel 5 in the UK is a member of Creative Diversity Network’s Project Diamond (CDN), a diversity monitoring system that aims to help broadcasters and producers increase the diversity of those working on- and off-screen in the TV industry. Channel 5 is part of project Diamond and Maria Kyriacou, president of U.K., Northern and Eastern Europe served as Chair of the CDN in 2020. In November 2020, Paramount Australia and New Zealand launched its inaugural Reconciliation Action Plan to further its multipronged commitment toward reconciliation with Australia’s First Peoples, including in the media.

MTV Staying Alive Foundation launched in October 2021 the results of a ‘Decade of Impact of MTV Shuga’, the sex-edutainment series, and announced the findings from two new research studies by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) in South Africa, and an evaluation in Nigeria by the Tulane University. Together, these studies show that MTV Shuga viewers are more likely to use condoms, more likely to test for HIV, and are more likely to have positive perceptions around gender-based violence.