Strengthening Equality Bodies: the 2024 EU Standards Directives

Equality Bodies have played a crucial role for promoting equal treatment and for combating discrimination. The 2024 EU Standards Directives laid down minimum standards for the functioning of these bodies so as to improve their effectiveness and to ensure their independence and the human, technical, and financial resources that are necessary to perform their duties. This lecture will focus on the current types and characteristics of Equality Bodies and on the impact of the Standards Directives, which must be implemented by EU Member States by June 2026.

Biographical note: Vincenzo Tudisco is a Senior Visiting Fellow in the research cluster “In/equalities in the context of social transformation processes”. He has been working as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Law and as a Consultant for the European Network of Equality Bodies (Equinet) and for the National Office Against Racial Discrimination (UNAR). His research and teaching activities in Comparative Constitutional Law, EU Law, and Public Law have focused on diversity, non-discrimination, minorities, Equality Bodies, and National Human Rights Institutions.

Moderation by Emma Lantschner (Graz University)