Adidas run diversiteitsquotum after the Black Lives Matter protests

sportswear brand, Adidas, comes as a response to the protests, the Black Lives Matter movement, and more, black and hispanic American men have in the United States of america. Reports that the German sportswear brand on Wednesday. At least three of the ten employees of the company must be either black or of Latin American descent.

The events of the past two years, a process of reflection within the led, writes the chief executive Kasper Rorsted. "We have employees speaking about the importance of inclusion, but we need to do in order to create a working environment in which employees feel safe and heard, to feel it, but it will also allow people to have equal opportunities in their career.

in Addition to the minimumgetal of black-and hispanic-American workers, the company will be 20 million dollars (17.6 million euros) in the black communities, and put dozens of scholarships are going to pay for it.

The protests, the Black Lives Matter movement began two weeks ago, after the death of George on the Cover, in the American city of Detroit. Floyd passed away, after a cop or his knee for a few minutes in the back of his neck had been pushed out. The death of an unarmed black man, will be seen as just one more example of racially motivated police brutality.

After the demonstrations in Minneapolis and spread it all over the country, and then to the outside of the USA, " feet on the ground. In the uk there are thousands and thousands of people in demonstrations in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Den Haag and Utrecht, the netherlands. The protests were not only meant to show solidarity with the protests in the united states, but also against the forms of racism and discrimination in the Netherlands.