Mondelez scored a 95 out of 100 on the 2023-2024 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a political stakeholder group. By complying with the HRC’s controversial demands, Mondelez, the parent company of Nabisco, Cadbury, Oreo, and other food brands, increases the risk of dividing employees, alienating customers and harming shareholders. The company provides a benefits package for employees which covers transgender medical procedures for covered employees and dependents, including children. It also uses sex and gender ideology criteria in employee recruitment, vendor selection, marketing, and philanthropic support. Mondelez forces employees to undergo multiple ideological trainings and uses its reputation, corporate funds, and political influence to support controversial sex and gender ideologies, organizations, and legislation. The company is a member of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, which aims to demonetize advertisements and suppress content that “vilifies” individuals based on sexual orientation and gender identity, discusses "debated social issues in a negative or partisan context" or spreads "hate speech". Mondelez International supports the Equality Act and was part of the Freedom for All Americans coalition, which advocated for federal legislation that would overrule state laws designed to protect girls' sports and similar laws. The company denounced various state efforts to protect election integrity. Further, Mondelez International's company Oreo published an extensive commercial in 2020 featuring the story of a same-sex couple and has advocated for transgender ideology. Mondelez International opposed the Florida Parental Rights in Education Act, which would prohibit teaching gender identity and sexual orientation to kids in K-3rd grade. Oreo co-sponsored PFLAG’s 2023 National Convention in Washington, DC, which was themed "Learning with Love". The convention opposed "education advocates" who have banned thousands of books from children's libraries, most of which are sexually explicit. Mondelez opposed various state and local legislation intended to protect parental rights, girls’ sports, bathroom facilities, and gendered spaces. The company opposed legislation in Iowa intended to protect parental rights, girls’ sports, bathroom facilities, and gendered spaces. Mondelez's EVP & President, Glen Walter, denounced various states’ legislative efforts to protect election integrity and security. The company’s CEO, Dirk Van de Put, signed the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion pledge, which includes a commitment to promote DEI through bias education training in the workplace. Mondelez International donated $500,000 to Black Lives Matter Global Network and the NAACP, prompting shareholders to request a racial equity audit. Oreo, donated $500,000 to PFLAG, an LGBTQ advocacy organization. This donation prompted a shareholder proposal by The National Legal and Policy Center calling on Mondelez to examine the risks of Oreo’s associations with ideological groups like PFLAG. The proposal calls for Mondelez to release a public report by March 2025. Oreo urges consumers to support the LGBTQ activist group PFLAG through a hyperlink on its Pride webpage. As part of a fundraiser for PFLAG, Nabisco created limited edition rainbow Oreo Cookies, hosting a donation pass-through to PFLAG from its website. Oreo also co-sponsored PFLAG’s 2023 National Convention. Mondelez is a copper sponsor of Out & Equal and a corporate partner of the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce. The company is a member of the MCCA, indicating its focus on recruiting, retaining, and promoting employees based on race. For these reasons, Mondelez receives a High Risk rating.