PdF on equality and diversity

The PdF wants to revise and tighten the laws against discrimination and hate crime. Anti-discrimination offices are to be expanded, and minorities are to get easier access to education and work. According to the platform, the goal is better protection against racism and antisemitism.

The PdF wants stricter laws against discrimination. Discrimination means treating people worse, for example because of where they come from. Advice offices should get more money. Minorities should find it easier to learn and work.

The platform calls for expanding anti-discrimination offices at the federal and state level and funding them better so that affected people can find advice more easily. Specialized units are to pursue hate crime and discrimination cases. Structural reforms in education and the workplace are meant to reduce disadvantages, along with support programs for marginalized groups. The PdF also wants to involve minorities more in social and political processes and to protect vulnerable groups from exclusion and violence.

The PdF wants to protect the free practice of religion for everyone and strictly uphold the separation of church and state. It rejects religious extremism and relies on prevention through education to counter it.

Everyone should be free to live their faith. The state should not favor any religion. Church and state should stay separate. Education should help against religious extremism.

The platform sees religious diversity as an enrichment and wants to support the peaceful coexistence of faith communities. Practicing religion is treated as a private right; the state is to treat all people equally regardless of their religion. Against radicalization, the PdF relies on prevention through education and awareness. Young people in particular are to learn early about democratic values, tolerance and the dangers of extremist ideologies.

The PdF wants to raise the number of shelter places for women affected by violence to 21,000 and fund women's shelters and counseling centers uniformly through a federal law. The platform considers existing services inadequate, especially in rural areas.

Many women experience violence. Women's shelters are often full and short of money. The PdF wants 21,000 shelter places. One law for all of Germany should settle the funding. Rural areas should have enough help too.

The platform points to 938 attempted femicides in 2023, in which 360 women and girls died, and to the very high share of male suspects in sexual violence cases. Expanding to 21,000 places is meant to meet the requirements of the Istanbul Convention, a Council of Europe treaty on protecting women from violence. Rural areas would get facilities that are accessible everywhere. A nationwide funding law would ensure that those affected get equally good help regardless of where they live.

The PdF wants to legalize abortion in the first twelve weeks and regulate it outside the Criminal Code. Mandatory counseling would become a voluntary offer, and statutory health insurers would cover the costs. The platform justifies this with women's self-determination and equal access regardless of income.

The PdF wants to allow abortions up to the twelfth week. The rules should no longer be part of criminal law. Counseling should be voluntary. Health insurance should pay the costs.

The rules would move into the Schwangerschaftskonfliktgesetz (Pregnancy Conflict Act). Women would have a legal right to counseling but would no longer be required to attend. Coverage by statutory health insurers is meant to lower financial barriers. The platform cites a Forsa poll in which 72 percent of the population support legalization in the first twelve weeks. The reform should be accompanied by an open debate that weighs women's rights against the protection of unborn life.