CDU on equality and diversity

The CDU wants to implement accessibility and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities across all policy fields. The goal is for people with disabilities to take part in life fully and on their own terms.

People with disabilities should be able to take part everywhere. The CDU wants to remove barriers for this. That applies to transport, buildings, work and school, for example. The people affected should have a say in the plans.

The program names mobility, building construction, urban development, work, education, health and communication as priorities. People affected and their organizations are to be involved early and fully in action plans and measures. The CDU wants to actively reduce structural disadvantage and discrimination and avoid new barriers created by digitalization. In the labor market, incentives for companies and better links with job seekers with disabilities are meant to bring more inclusion.

The CDU wants Hamburg's administration to write clearly and follow the official spelling rules. It rejects gender-inclusive language there because, in its view, that language is grammatically wrong and creates new barriers to understanding.

The administration should write in language everyone understands. It should follow the official spelling rules. The CDU does not want gender-inclusive language in the administration. This language uses, for example, asterisks inside words. The CDU says this makes texts harder to read.

The standard is to be the official rulebook issued by the Council for German Orthography. The demand concerns how agencies communicate with citizens. The CDU bases its rejection on its view that gender-inclusive language is grammatically wrong and builds language barriers.