Grüne on equality and diversity

The Greens want permanent funding and staffing for women's shelters, counseling centers and other support against gender-based violence. Prevention, mandatory training for authorities and statistical recording of femicides are added. In the platform's view, there is no equality without safety.

The Greens want to protect women better from violence. Women's shelters and counseling centers should get enough money for the long term. Police and courts should take training on violence. Schools and workplaces should work on prevention. The state should count killings of women because of their gender separately.

The support network would be funded long-term across the state, including mobile services and work with perpetrators; shelters would get more staff to counsel children and teenagers. Police, the justice system and health workers would have to take training on trauma, violence and gender bias. Qualified psychologists would be a required part of proceedings on domestic and sexual violence and in family courts. Schools, universities and workplaces would get prevention plans against sexual and digital violence. Femicides would be defined uniformly and documented systematically by police and prosecutors. The Landesfrauenrat (state women's council) would receive lasting, adequate funding, and online law enforcement would be strengthened with better equipment.

The Greens want to draw up a binding gender equality strategy for the state and make gender budgeting a fixed part of the state budget. At least half of the leadership positions in state-owned enterprises and holdings are to go to women. The platform argues that women earn less and are underrepresented in leadership.

The Greens want a firm plan for gender equality in the state. The state budget should check how money benefits women and men. This is called gender budgeting. In state-owned companies, women should get at least half of the top jobs.

The strategy is to bundle goals, measures and responsibilities across all departments, for example on the labor market, education, health, protection from violence and political participation. In IT companies owned by the state and municipalities, parity is to be secured by legal requirements with interim targets, sanctions and transparent reporting. Women leaders are to be supported through mentoring programs. Towns and villages are to be planned in a gender-sensitive way, for instance with short distances, good lighting and safe crossings. Girls are to be attracted to STEM subjects early, backed by statewide campaigns featuring role models.

The Greens want to expand independent anti-discrimination counseling centers across the state and have the state fund them long-term. In addition, a central, independent anti-discrimination office is to be created by law. Systematic data collection is meant to make discrimination visible, especially where people face several disadvantages at once.

Some people are treated worse than others. The Greens want more counseling centers to fight this. The state should pay for them over the long term. There should also be one central office against discrimination. Victims of violence and hate should get help faster.

The central office is to be created by a state law and work with the commissioners for Jewish life, against antisemitism and for integration. Targeted support is planned for women of color, women with disabilities and people in difficult life situations. Counseling and support for victims of violence and hate crimes are to grow, with extra money for more contact points and more staff. The platform argues that discrimination that goes unrecognized cannot be fought.

The Greens want to fund counseling and support services for queer people over longer periods and adjust the money for inflation each year. Certain professions are to receive mandatory training. The platform points out that many queer people experience exclusion and a lack of support.

The Greens want to support queer people. Queer means, for example, lesbian, gay or trans people. Counseling centers should get money for longer periods. Teachers and police should have to take training on this topic.

The longer funding periods are to cover all existing projects on health, life, education and psychological support, and reach rural areas as well. Mandatory training is planned for educators, social workers, school psychologists and police officers to prevent multiple discrimination. Trans, inter, non-binary and agender people are to be able to take full part in society; the Greens name health, safety, visibility, school and sports. Queer lives are to become more visible in education, vocational training and public life.

The Greens want to consistently apply the state law on equality for people with disabilities. A state commissioner for inclusion is to be appointed. Together with municipalities, towns and cities are to become barrier-free.

People with disabilities should be able to take part everywhere. The Greens want to seriously apply the law on this. A state commissioner should take care of inclusion. Towns and cities should have fewer obstacles.

The platform names three steps: implementing the Landesbehindertengleichstellungsgesetz (state disability equality act), appointing a commissioner at state level and working with municipalities. According to the Greens, the goal is to remove hurdles in everyday life, in people's minds and in towns. Barriers are to come down both physically and legally.

The Greens want to pass an anti-discrimination law for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It is meant to secure counseling centers permanently and define which forms of discrimination can be challenged in court.

The Greens want a new law against discrimination. Discrimination means someone is treated unfairly, for example because of where they come from. With the law, people could go to court. Counseling centers would get lasting funding.

The law is meant to give the existing counseling centers, which are funded by the state and the federal government, a permanent legal and financial footing. It would define at the state level what counts as discrimination so that affected people can sue. A coordinating anti-discrimination office is to be created, housing the commissioners for Jewish life and against antisemitism as well as the state's integration commissioners. The law is also meant to expand anti-discrimination structures.