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

The AfD wants child-rearing to remain the parents' responsibility and therefore opposes writing children's rights into the Basic Law. It likewise opposes what it calls gender ideology and wants to hold on to the traditional image of the family.

The AfD says parents should raise their children, not the state. It does not want separate children's rights in the constitution. It is against new ideas about gender. The AfD wants to keep the family of father, mother and children.

The AfD affirms equal rights for women and men under Article 3 of the Basic Law. It rejects gender equality policy that, in its view, denies differences between the sexes. The state should not steer how women and men shape their lives and divide family duties.

The AfD says women and men have the same rights. But it rejects today's gender equality policy. It thinks this policy tries to make women and men the same. The state should stay out of it. Parents should decide for themselves who does which tasks in the family.

The AfD rejects quotas for women in politics and business on principle. In its view they interfere with individual freedoms and lead to new discrimination. Tasks and positions should be assigned by ability and performance, not by gender.

The AfD is against quotas for women. A quota says how many posts must go to women. The AfD says this is unfair to other people. Only skill and performance should count.

The Saarland CDU supports adding protection against discrimination based on sexual identity to the Grundgesetz (Basic Law, Germany's constitution). It wants to evaluate, revise and continue the state action plan against homophobia and transphobia.

The CDU says no one should be treated worse because of their sexual identity. Saarland's state constitution already says this. The CDU wants the national constitution to say it too. The state's plan against hostility should be checked and updated.

The CDU wants to create a specialist office for accessibility at the state's social affairs ministry. It is to advise people affected and those who implement accessibility, and coordinate the work, so that people with disabilities can take part in daily life on equal terms.

Many people in Saarland have a disability. They should be able to take part everywhere. For this, barriers must go, for example in buildings, buses and online. The CDU wants a new office that gives advice on this.

The CDU wants to promote voluntary, unpaid blood donation and supports ending exclusions or deferrals based on a person's sexual or gender identity. Only individual risk behavior is to count. The platform justifies this with the growing shortage of blood supplies.

There are too few blood donations. Until now, some people could not donate because of their sexual identity. The CDU wants to change that. Only a person's own risky behavior should matter.

The CDU calls for an independent commissioner for equal participation at the level of the state government. She is to work with women's organizations, advise women's representatives and encourage companies to advance equality. The state equality law is to be reviewed and adjusted.

The CDU wants a new state commissioner for equality. She should be independent. She should advise women's groups, public agencies and companies. The state's equality law should also be reviewed.

The CDU wants to create dedicated education and training programs for girls and women in the digital field and give female founders more targeted support. Women are to have equal access to venture capital, since significantly more men than women currently start businesses.

Few women work in the digital sector. Most new companies are started by men. The CDU wants to change that. There should be special courses for girls and women. Women who start a business should get more advice and money.

The CDU wants women and men to hold leadership positions on equal terms in politics, public administration, business and society. For the state's committees and supervisory boards, it calls for binding targets that lead toward parity.

Women should be leaders as often as men. The CDU wants this in politics, public agencies and companies. State boards should have fixed targets for the share of women. In the end, half of the seats should go to women.

The SPD wants more women in paid work and wants to close the gender pay gap. Social professions are to be paid better, and moving from part-time to full-time work is to be supported.

Women often earn less than men. The SPD wants to change that. Jobs in care and social work should pay more. Women should find it easier to move from part-time to full-time. There should be more advice for women.

The SPD wants to give people with disabilities more participation in housing, work, health care and leisure and involve them in decisions. For sheltered workshops, it seeks nationwide pay in line with minimum wage rules.

People with disabilities should be able to take part everywhere. The SPD wants more help with housing and work. Sheltered workshops should pay like the minimum wage. Public information should also come in easy language.

The SPD wants a parity law so that half of the state parliament's members are women in the future. In companies majority-owned by the state, a women's quota is to apply to supervisory and management boards, and the state budget is to be analyzed for its effect on the sexes.

The SPD wants more women in important positions. Half of the members of the state parliament should be women. A law should make sure of that. State-owned companies should get a quota for women. The state should check how it shares money between women and men.

The SPD wants to set up a state program that covers the cost of contraceptives for women on low incomes. Couples who are involuntarily childless would get financial help with fertility treatment regardless of their sexual identity. The party also wants more counseling for women with unwanted pregnancies.

The SPD wants to help women with little money. The state would pay for their birth control. Couples who cannot have a child would get money for fertility treatment. This also applies to same-sex couples. There would be more counseling for pregnant women.

The SPD wants to treat racism as a cross-cutting issue and draw up a comprehensive prevention strategy against discrimination. People affected are to get easily accessible contact points and better support. Public administration is to become more open to cultural diversity.

The SPD wants to do more against racism. There would be a plan against unfair treatment. People affected should find help easily. Contact points would be set up for them. Public offices should also become more open to people from other cultures.

The SPD wants sexual and gender identity to be protected in Article 3 of the Basic Law, Germany's constitution. It plans a strategy against homophobic and transphobic hate crime. The needs of queer people in health care are also to receive more attention.

The SPD wants to protect queer people better. Queer means, for example, lesbian, gay or trans. The constitution should name this protection. There would be a plan against hate crimes. The police would get a dedicated contact person.

The SPD wants to make fighting violence against women, especially domestic violence, a priority of its gender equality policy. An independent body is to monitor how the Istanbul Convention is implemented. Shelters and support services are to be expanded and reliably funded.

The SPD wants to protect women better from violence. A new office would check whether the state does enough. Support services would get more money. Every woman should find a place in a shelter. Men who are affected would also get protection.