What do the parties in Berlin say on equality and diversity?

The AfD wants to strictly enforce Berlin's Neutralitätsgesetz (neutrality law) for police and the judiciary and to again allow an unrestricted headscarf ban for teachers in schools. Girls under 14 would not be allowed to wear a headscarf at school. The platform warns that a weak neutrality law leads to creeping Islamization and undermines trust in the state.

The AfD wants teachers not to wear a headscarf at school. Girls under 14 should not wear a headscarf at school either. The ban on religious symbols should stay for police and courts. The AfD wants to ban visible prayer on school grounds.

The AfD wants to eliminate commissioner posts, such as those for gender equality and anti-discrimination, and rejects quotas. The money saved would go to family support. The party favors equal opportunity over equal outcomes.

Berlin has officers for gender equality. The AfD wants to end these posts. It also wants no quotas. A quota sets how many women or men get a position. The money saved should go to families.

The CDU wants to fight violence against women and domestic violence based on the state action plan implementing the Istanbul Convention. This includes more shelter places and counseling, a tenth women's shelter, and prevention in daycare centers and schools.

The CDU wants to protect women better from violence. There should be more places in shelters. Berlin should get a tenth women's shelter. Children should learn early about limits and respect.

The CDU wants to improve the situation of people affected by domestic violence. Victims should be able to get out of shared leases more easily, and abusers should face consequences in custody and visitation law. In the program's view, it is the perpetrators who should feel ashamed, not the victims.

Some people face violence in their own home. The CDU wants to help them more. They should leave a shared lease more easily. They should find a new home quickly. A violent parent may lose contact with the child.

The CDU rejects gender-inclusive language forms, such as the gender asterisk, in government agencies and public institutions. In its view, administrative communication should be measured by correct, understandable German.

The CDU wants no gender-inclusive language in public offices. This means things like stars inside words. Offices should write clearly and simply. The CDU thinks gender language does not fit that.

The CDU wants Article 3 of the Basic Law, Germany's constitution, to be amended to include "sexual identity." Article 3 covers equality before the law and bans on discrimination.

Article 3 of the German constitution bans unfair treatment. It lists traits like sex or origin. The CDU wants to add one more trait. It is "sexual identity." This should better protect gay and lesbian people, for example.

The CDU wants to strengthen the petitions committee and cut overlaps with the state anti-discrimination office and the citizens' and police ombudsperson. It rejects further publicly funded special structures for individual groups.

The CDU is against all kinds of discrimination. But it wants fewer offices doing the same job. There should be no new offices just for single groups.

The Greens want to advance equal pay for women and men and, to that end, publish an equal pay report for the administration and state-owned enterprises. Work and care duties are to become easier to combine through needs-based childcare, and discrimination in the workplace is to be reduced.

Women often earn less than men. The Greens want to change that. A report should show how the state of Berlin pays. In companies owned by the state, women should hold half of the top jobs. Parents should get better care for their children.

The Greens want half of professorships and leadership posts to be held by women and want diversity officers permanently established at all universities and research institutions. Measures against abuse of power are also to be strengthened. According to the platform, universities serve as a model for society.

The Greens want more women as professors and in leading jobs. Half of these jobs should go to women. Every university should have diversity officers. They advise people who face unfair treatment. The Greens also want to do more against abuse of power.

The Greens want to secure gender equality through a strategy covering all Senate departments, a parity law for the state parliament and expanded gender budgeting. According to the platform, the aim is for women and other groups covered by the term FLINTA* to live freely and with economic independence.

The Greens want more gender equality in Berlin. There should be a fixed plan for all parts of the government. Parliament should have as many women as men. The Greens want a law for that. The state should check who benefits from its spending. This is called gender budgeting.

The Greens want to implement the Gewalthilfegesetz (federal act on support for victims of violence) and spend the federal money on additional services. They plan two more women's shelters, more counseling and more safe apartments, because the platform considers the existing places insufficient.

The Greens want more protection for women who face violence. There should be two new women's shelters. More counseling and more safe apartments are also planned. Federal money should pay for extra help. Everyone affected should get help, no matter their residence status.

The Greens want to fully implement the Istanbul Convention on protecting women and girls from violence, with more prevention and more work with offenders. At the federal level they want to make verbal sexual harassment ("catcalling") a crime, and they want to make it easier to get a residence permit that does not depend on a spouse.

The Greens want to carry out the Istanbul Convention. This is a treaty among many countries to protect women from violence. There should be more prevention in schools and public offices. Offenders should, for example, take anger training. Sexual harassment with words should become a crime. Courts should get special divisions for sex crimes.

The Greens want to expand support for people affected by digital violence and strengthen the structures for reporting and documenting such cases. The platform sees this as a central form of gender-based violence that mostly affects women, girls and queer people.

Some people are threatened or insulted online. This is called digital violence. The Greens want more counseling for those affected. People should be able to report such cases better across Berlin. Police, courts and schools should get training on this.

The Greens want to push at the federal level for repealing Section 218 of the Criminal Code, which makes abortion a criminal offense. They justify this with the right of pregnant people to decide about their own bodies.

Section 218 is part of the Criminal Code. It says that abortion is generally a crime. The Greens want to remove this section. They say pregnant people should decide about their own bodies. Berlin should bring a bill on this to the Bundesrat.

The Greens want to protect and decriminalize sex workers and reduce the stigma they face. To do so, they plan to implement the results of the "Runder Tisch Sexarbeit" (round table on sex work) and develop protection plans with the districts, especially for the Kurfürstenkiez neighborhood.

The Greens want to protect people in sex work better. They should get safe and clean places to work. There should be more counseling and better medical help. Things should change especially in the Kurfürstenkiez area. People who violate sex workers' rights should be punished.

The Greens want to draw up an anti-discrimination and diversity strategy for all of Berlin that brings existing programs together. Responsibilities at the state and borough level are to be set out in law. Counseling services for disadvantaged groups are to receive permanent funding and be expanded.

The Greens want one plan against discrimination for all of Berlin. Discrimination means treating people unfairly. The plan should bring all current programs together. Advice centers should get lasting funding.

The Greens want to revise Berlin's Landesantidiskriminierungsgesetz (LADG, the state anti-discrimination law) and widen its protection. New protected characteristics would be added, the law would also apply to state-owned companies, and the ombuds office would become an independent authority.

Berlin has a law against discrimination by public offices. The Greens want to widen this law. It should protect more people. People should have more time to file a claim. The complaints office should become independent.

The Greens want to relaunch the Diversity-Landesprogramm (state diversity program) and make it mandatory for all Berlin administrations. Core measures would be written into law. In addition, a diversity check would review all Senate projects in advance for discriminatory effects.

Berlin has a program for more diversity in public offices. The Greens want to restart it. All offices would have to follow it. New laws would be checked first. The check asks: Does this law put anyone at a disadvantage?

The Greens want to fully implement the Partizipations- und Migrationsgesetz (PartMigG, Berlin's participation and migration law) and raise the share of BIPoC and people who experience racism or antisemitism in the administration to the population average by 2030. In the long run, a diversity quota is planned. State-owned companies would also get binding diversity strategies.

Few people with a migration background work in Berlin's public offices. The Greens want to change that. By 2030, their share should match the city's population. Later there should be a diversity quota. A quota is a fixed minimum share.

The Greens want to set up a new format in Berlin's state parliament that works on anti-discrimination policy together with civil society. It would also monitor how politics and the administration carry out the measures. In the party's view, the previous commission of inquiry did not deliver effective results.

The Greens want a new body in Berlin's parliament. There, lawmakers would work with civic groups. The topic is policy against discrimination. The body would also check whether public offices carry out the decisions.

The Greens want to fully implement Berlin's state plan for preventing antisemitism and close gaps in protection. Jewish sites would get better structural and personnel security, and prevention organizations would receive lasting rather than short-term funding. The party wants Jewish life in Berlin to be possible in safety and freedom.

The Greens want to protect Jewish people in Berlin better. Jewish places should get more security. Groups that work against hatred of Jews should get lasting funding. Police should pursue crimes driven by this hatred. Researchers should study hatred of Jews online.

The Greens want to appoint a state commissioner against anti-Muslim racism. The office would close gaps in protection in public authorities, schools and working life and carry out the recommendations of the responsible expert commission. Counseling and monitoring services would grow.

The Greens want a new office against hatred of Muslims. This person should protect Muslims better in public offices and schools. Public employees would have to take training. July 1 should become a day of remembrance.

The Greens want stronger action against anti-Asian racism and against anti-Slavic discrimination. To that end, counseling and reporting offices would be set up, public employees trained and self-organized groups funded.

The Greens want to protect people of Asian origin better. The same goes for people with roots in Eastern Europe. There should be advice centers and places to report incidents. Staff in public offices would get training.

The Greens want Berlin to commit to the second UN Decade for People of African Descent and to draw up an overall strategy with an action plan through 2034. The structures from the first decade would be kept and secured for the long term.

The United Nations declared ten years for people of African descent. The Greens want Berlin to take part. Berlin should write a plan through 2034. Advice centers for Black people should stay for good.

The Greens want to push back racism against Sinti and Roma in public administration, education, health care and the labor market. The responsible advisory council would be involved on a binding basis, and public bodies would receive training. The party opposes deporting Roma refugees to countries of origin classified as safe.

Sinti and Roma often face discrimination in Berlin. The Greens want to change that. Public offices should get training. Schools should teach about Sinti and Roma. Roma refugees should not be deported if they face violence at home.

The Greens want to permanently secure queer counseling centers, projects, cultural venues and safer spaces and expand them across all districts. The platform sees this infrastructure as threatened by attacks, displacement and the Senate's policies. Every district is to get at least one queer venue and a commissioner for queer issues.

The Greens want to protect queer people in Berlin better. Queer means, for example, lesbian, gay or trans. Every district should have a meeting place for queer people. Every district should have a contact person for queer issues. Counseling should be available all over the city.

The Greens want to give Berlin's queer communities more support, with counseling centers, an action plan for bi+ people, and a fund for accessibility. The state's initiative on gender and sexual diversity is to become a binding overall strategy.

The Greens want to support queer people in Berlin more. Queer means, for example, lesbian, gay, bi, or trans. There should be more counseling centers across the city. A plan should help bisexual people. The city should set fixed goals for all Senate departments.

The Greens want Berlin to push at the federal and EU level for legal reforms against discrimination. These include protecting gender and sexual identity in the Basic Law (Germany's constitution) and legally recognizing partnerships other than marriage.

The Greens want to change the Basic Law. That is Germany's constitution. It should say: No one may be treated worse because of their sexual identity. Partnerships without marriage should also be legally recognized. People in them take responsibility for each other. Berlin should push for this in Germany and in the EU.

The Greens want to respond to what they describe as a sharp rise in anti-queer hostility with education, prevention, and better protection. Schools are to receive queer education programs every year, and a study is to capture unreported violence.

The Greens want to protect queer people better from hate and violence. All school students should learn about queer life every year. Police should protect queer places more when there is danger. A study should show how much violence there really is. Many attacks are never reported.

The Greens want women, people with low incomes, people with disabilities and BIPoC to be better represented in the cultural sector, especially in leadership. A central complaints office is to be created to counter abuse of power.

Some groups have few chances in the cultural sector. This is true for women and people with disabilities, for example. The Greens want to change that. There should also be an office for complaints.

The Greens want to abolish Berlin's Neutralitätsgesetz (Neutrality Act) so that religious symbols such as the hijab, kippah or turban can also be worn in public service. In addition, all faith communities are to be able to practice their religion on equal terms, for example regarding holidays, shop opening hours and burials.

The Neutrality Act bans religious symbols for some state employees. Examples are the headscarf or the kippah. The Greens want to abolish this law. All religions should have the same rights.

The Greens want to create an independent complaints office for discrimination in schools. Education projects against anti-queer hostility, racism and antisemitism would be expanded and made a permanent offering in schools. The party considers these projects important for fostering respect and acceptance.

The Greens want a complaints office for schools. People who are treated unfairly can turn to it. Projects against racism, hatred of Jews and hatred of queer people should stay. There should be more of them.

The Greens want the workforce of Berlin's administration to reflect the city's diversity. To that end, language barriers in hiring are to be lowered and flexible work models such as remote work, job sharing and part-time leadership made possible. The practice of denying civil-servant status because of a person's weight is to end.

Very different people live in Berlin. The Greens want the public offices to reflect that. People who do not yet speak perfect German should get hired more easily. Staff should be able to work more flexibly, for example from home. Nobody should be denied civil-servant status because of their weight.

The Left bases its disability policy on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. People with disabilities are to take a greater part in politics, personal assistance is to be secured, and the special transport service is to be usable without a co-payment.

People with disabilities should decide about their own lives. They should have more say in politics. Meetings should be accessible to everyone. Rides with the special transport service should no longer cost anything.

The Left wants to launch a citywide initiative across all departments for an inclusive labor market. Berlin's administration is to train and employ considerably more people with disabilities, and state-owned companies are to meet the statutory employment quota in full.

The Left wants more jobs for people with disabilities. Berlin's public offices should hire and train more of them. Office buildings should be free of barriers. The state's companies should meet the required quota.

The Left wants to better protect people with disabilities living in shared residential settings from violence. To that end, the legal rules are to be tightened and residents involved in shaping the protective measures.

Some people with disabilities live together in group homes. The Left wants to protect them better from violence. The law should set clear rules for this. The residents should have a say.

The Left wants to remove abortion from the criminal code and plans to launch an initiative in the Bundesrat to do so. The platform argues that deciding over one's own body is a fundamental right.

The Left wants to end Section 218. This law makes abortion a crime. The required counseling should also end. Health insurers should pay the costs.

The Left wants to improve medical care for trans people in Berlin and strengthen specialized services. The platform points to long waiting times, bureaucratic procedures and a lack of specialized care.

The Left wants better health care for trans people. There should be more therapy places. Hormones should be easier to get. Health insurers should cover costs more easily.

The Left opposes discrimination based on age and wants to achieve an amendment to the Grundgesetz (Germany's constitution) at the federal level. It explicitly includes discrimination against young people.

No one should be treated worse because of their age. This applies to old and young people. The Left wants to write this into the Grundgesetz. The Grundgesetz is Germany's constitution.

The Left wants to create an independent office where students and parents can turn in cases of discrimination and bullying. It would have the right to inspect files and to intervene. The party aims to counter racism, antisemitism, sexism, hostility toward queer people and other forms of disadvantage in schools.

The Left wants a new office for complaints. Children and parents can contact it. For example, when there is bullying or unfair treatment. The office should be independent of the school. It may look at files and step in.

The Left wants to make youth work a distinct focus of a citywide anti-discrimination strategy and support anti-racist, feminist and queer projects in every district. Youth facilities would be equipped so that young people with disabilities can take part as a matter of course. To counter far-right recruiting among young people, street social work and exit programs would be expanded.

The Left wants youth work to be a safe place for everyone. Every district should have projects against racism. There should also be projects for women and queer people. Young people with disabilities should be able to join in everywhere. The party wants to do more against far-right groups that recruit young people.

The Left wants a cross-departmental Senate strategy against unequal pay between women and men. Occupations with a high share of women are to be upgraded financially and structurally, and more women are to reach skilled and leadership positions and enter male-dominated sectors.

The Left wants equal pay for women and men. Jobs done mostly by women should pay better. These include nursing, cleaning and childcare. More women should become bosses. Women should also get into technical jobs more easily.

The Left wants to secure, expand and better fund women's shelters, girls' clubs, women's centers and counseling services for the long term. Staff there should be paid according to collective agreements and their qualifications.

The Left wants to protect women's shelters and advice centers for women. There should be more of them. The city should give more money for this. Staff there should get pay set by union agreements.

The Left wants to expand protection against gender-based violence by implementing the Gewalthilfegesetz (federal violence assistance act) and the Istanbul Convention across all Senate departments. A state coordination office would steer the work, and a Bundesrat initiative would extend the right to protection to additional groups.

The Left wants to protect women and others better from violence. There is a treaty for this called the Istanbul Convention. Many countries signed it to stop violence against women. Berlin should follow this treaty everywhere. A new office should plan this for all of Berlin.

The Left wants to revise Berlin's rules on the protection of people in prostitution together with sex workers. Sex work should be neither criminalized nor stigmatized, and the party rejects restricted zones where it is banned.

The Left wants to change the rules for sex work in Berlin. Sex workers should have a say in this. No one should punish them or treat them badly. The Left does not want restricted zones. These are areas where sex work is banned.

The Left wants to review and further develop Berlin's state initiative for gender and sexual diversity (IGSV) and bring it back into parliament. Queer policy should focus more on social issues because, according to the program, queer people are especially often poor. Lesbian visibility is to be specifically promoted.

The Left wants to improve policy for queer people in Berlin. Queer means, for example, lesbian, gay or trans. Many queer people have little money. So there should be special help for them. Lesbians should become more visible in the city.

The Left wants to better protect queer people from housing discrimination and homelessness and to support queer housing projects. Queer bars, clubs and centers would be shielded from displacement as "cultural protection zones" under federal law.

Many queer people have a hard time finding a home. The Left wants to help them. Housing projects for queer people should get money and land. Queer bars and clubs should get special protection. Then they will not have to close so easily.

The Left wants to add sexual identity to the equality article of the Basic Law and change parentage law so that rainbow families are treated equally. The Selbstbestimmungsgesetz (Self-Determination Act) is to be developed further and defended against repeal.

The Left wants equal rights for queer people. The constitution should protect them by name. Families with two mothers or two fathers should have the same rights. The Self-Determination Act should stay and get better. This law makes it easier to change your legal gender.

The Left wants to counter hate violence against queer people mainly through independent reporting offices, victim counseling and mandatory training in public agencies, since in its view more police does not mean more safety for everyone. Schools would get designated staff for diversity and binding guidelines, and Pride (CSD) events would be protected.

Queer people face more and more violence. The Left wants more reporting offices and advice for victims. They should get help even without going to the police. Every school should have a trained person for diversity. Queer marches like Pride should be safe.

The Left wants to close the gender pay gap in the cultural sector and develop a long-term plan to do so. Cultural workers with care responsibilities get particular attention. Funding for FLINTA* people in culture is to be expanded.

Women in culture earn much less than men. The Left wants to change that. It wants to make a plan for this. Artists who care for children or relatives should get help. Women and queer people should get more funding.

The Left wants to step up action against racism and antisemitism, especially where they are embedded in structures and institutions. This work would be funded permanently, and the public sector would be trained and organized accordingly.

The Left wants to do more against racism and hatred of Jews. All parts of the Senate should take part. There should be lasting money and staff for this. City employees should get training.

The Left wants better research on discrimination in Berlin and permanent funding for the existing specialist offices. The data is meant to inform counter-strategies. Racism, antisemitism and Berlin's colonial legacy are also to become a fixed part of teacher training.

The Left wants to know more about discrimination in Berlin. There should be studies on it. Advice centers against discrimination should get lasting funding. Teachers should learn more about racism and antisemitism.

The Left wants to review Berlin's state anti-discrimination act (Landesantidiskriminierungsgesetz), add new protected grounds and strengthen the ombuds office. At the federal level it seeks a comprehensive reform of the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG) via the Bundesrat. It opposes racial profiling.

Berlin has a law against discrimination by public offices. The Left wants to widen this law. It should list more reasons for unfair treatment. The complaints office should get more staff and more rights. Police should not stop people because of how they look.

The Left wants more prevention and education against antisemitism in all areas of society and in state institutions. Recognized, qualified organizations are to be funded permanently rather than through short project terms. The program cites the rise in antisemitic crimes as the reason.

There are more crimes against Jewish people. The Left wants more education to stop this. Advice centers and projects should get lasting funding. Research on antisemitism should get money too.

The Left wants to develop a state program that promotes the participation of Roma and combats antigypsyism. The program points to discrimination and attacks, especially in public offices and in housing and employment.

Sinti and Roma are often treated unfairly in Berlin. The Left wants a state program against this. The contact person for this issue should be strengthened. One instruction for job centers should be dropped, because the party says it treats Roma unfairly.

The Left wants targeted measures against anti-Muslim, anti-Black, anti-Asian, anti-Slavic, anti-Palestinian and anti-Kurdish racism. These include a Senate strategy against anti-Muslim racism, a review of the police and its databases, and more colonial and migration history in teaching.

The Left wants to fight different kinds of racism. The Berlin government should make a plan against racism toward Muslims. The police and its data files should be checked. Schools should teach more about colonial history.

The Left wants all religious and worldview communities in Berlin to be treated equally and considers preferential treatment of the Christian churches unjustifiable. Plans include religiously neutral pastoral care for non-religious people and more Muslim pastoral care. The party opposes religious fundamentalism.

Berlin has many religions and many people without a religion. The Left wants to treat them all the same. Christian churches should not get special benefits. People without a religion should also get pastoral care. Pastoral care means someone listens and helps in hard times.

The Left wants to write gender equality into sports law and introduce a binding quota that reserves funding and training time for girls and FLINTA* teams. Violence-protection plans would become a condition for public money, and an independent complaints office would track discrimination in sports.

The Left wants more equality in sports. Girls and FLINTA* teams should get a fixed share of the money. FLINTA* means women, lesbians, and inter, non-binary, trans and agender people. Clubs need a plan to protect people from violence. A new office should take complaints about discrimination.

The Left wants to secure access to sports for people with disabilities through barrier-free facilities, assistance and a say in decisions. The Jahn-Sportpark would be developed as an inclusive grassroots sports complex, with a cheaper stadium than currently planned.

People with disabilities should be able to do sports everywhere. Each district should get at least one sports facility without barriers. There should be money for assistance and sign language. The Jahn-Sportpark should become a place for everyone.

The SPD wants women and men in Berlin to be paid equally. To that end, the EU Pay Transparency Directive is to be written into German law.

Women often earn less than men. The SPD wants to change that. The EU has a rule on this. This rule should become law in Germany too.

The SPD wants urban development to reflect different life situations and to make gender mainstreaming a fixed standard in planning and contract awards. A dedicated coordination office modeled on Vienna is to anchor this permanently in the administration.

The SPD wants to plan the city for everyone. The city should always look at the needs of women and men equally. Streets and squares should be safe and free of barriers. A new office in the administration will take care of this. The model is the city of Vienna.

The SPD wants stronger protection for women and children against violence. Police would use standardized analyses to spot high-risk cases early, and women's shelters, safe apartments and violence protection clinics would be expanded across the city.

The SPD wants to protect women and children better from violence. Police should spot dangerous cases earlier. There should be more women's shelters and safe apartments. Money for these places should be secure for longer.

The SPD wants Berlin to push in the Bundesrat for new abortion legislation that no longer makes it a criminal matter. It also wants to restart the funding program for fertility treatment and open it to all family models.

Abortion is covered by criminal law today. The SPD wants to change that. Berlin should push for this in the Bundesrat. Couples who want a child should again get money for treatment.

The SPD wants an anti-bullying team at every school and a revision of curricula and learning materials with regard to queerness, racism and colonialism. Refugee children are to attend regular schools. An independent complaints office for schools and daycare is to be set up at the parliament.

Every school should get a team against bullying. Curricula and school books should be revised. They should not put anyone at a disadvantage. Refugee children should go to regular schools. There should be an independent office for complaints.

The SPD wants a parity law for Berlin so that the state parliament has as many women as men. People with a "diverse" or deleted gender entry are also to be taken into account. In the Bundesrat it wants to push for electoral law based on parity.

The SPD wants a new law for Berlin. The Berlin parliament should have as many women as men. The law should also consider non-binary people. The SPD wants this for all of Germany too.

The SPD wants to revise the Landesgleichstellungsgesetz (state equality act) and extend it to trans, inter and non-binary people. Women's and equality officers are to get more rights. Facilities and projects for women are to be secured and funded according to need.

Berlin has a law for the equality of women. The SPD wants to update this law. It should also cover trans, inter and non-binary people. Women's officers should get more rights. Projects for women should get enough money.

The SPD wants to strengthen the ombuds office under the Landesantidiskriminierungsgesetz (state anti-discrimination act) and bundle all anti-discrimination measures in one state plan. An independent commissioner is to coordinate this. In the program's view, the administration should lead in protecting diversity.

Berlin has a law against discrimination by public offices. One office helps people affected. The SPD wants to give this office more rights. One shared plan should link all measures. Public staff should get training.

The SPD wants to implement, develop and financially secure the 2023 LGBTIQ+ action plan. The Basic Law is to explicitly ban discrimination based on sexual orientation. At the federal level it wants to defend the Selbstbestimmungsgesetz (Self-Determination Act) and achieve equality for rainbow families.

The SPD wants to protect queer people better. Queer means, for example, lesbian, gay or trans. Every district should get a queer officer. There should be more safe places and shelters. The constitution should ban discrimination because of who people love.