Tierschutzpartei on equality and diversity

The Tierschutzpartei wants to fully implement the Istanbul Convention on protecting women from violence. Women's shelters are to receive uniform, long-term funding nationwide to create the missing places.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to protect women better from violence. Women's shelters should get steady money from the state. There should be more places for women in need.

According to the platform, at least 14,000 places in safe shelters are missing nationwide. A uniform federal rule is to secure their funding for the long term. Shelters, medical facilities and authorities should cooperate more closely, and police and courts should receive training. The plan also includes prevention campaigns and urban planning with well-lit streets and subsidized women's taxis.

The Tierschutzpartei wants abortion regulated outside criminal law and Section 218 struck. Health insurers should cover the costs, and contraception should be free for everyone.

The Tierschutzpartei wants women to decide about a pregnancy themselves. Abortion should no longer be a crime. Health insurance should pay for it. Contraception should be free.

Abortions in the first trimester are to be decriminalized. The platform bases this on women's right to decide about their own bodies; they should receive support rather than prosecution. The party also calls for more awareness campaigns and further research into contraception for men.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to reduce gender inequalities in pay, leadership, care work and medicine. It calls for equal pay, disclosure of pay differences and a women's quota in corporate leadership and political bodies.

The Tierschutzpartei wants equal chances for women and men. Women should earn the same as men. There should be a quota for women in top jobs and in politics. Fathers should take more parental leave.

Companies would have to report and justify pay differences in their statistics. The quota is to apply until, in the party's view, patriarchal power structures have been overcome. Care for children, the sick and the elderly is to be expanded, and training should involve men more in child-rearing and parental leave. In medicine, the platform demands studies broken down by sex and gender medicine as a required part of basic studies. Urban planning should also take women's perspectives into account.

The Tierschutzpartei wants people with disabilities to participate fully in all areas of life. It calls for more funding for inclusive schools and daycare centers, accessibility in everyday life and better access to the regular labor market.

The Tierschutzpartei wants people with disabilities to take part everywhere. Children with disabilities should go to regular daycare and schools. There should be more money and staff for this. Buildings, buses and trains should be free of barriers.

The share of children in special schools is to drop noticeably; education ministries, social welfare offices and health insurers should share the costs. Daycare centers are to get better staffing, expertise and space for inclusion. Sheltered workshops and similar facilities are to remain, while more people should find jobs on the open market. The platform also plans higher care allowances for parents of disabled children, inclusive housing projects, more assistance services and a stronger personal budget.

The Tierschutzpartei welcomes the Selbstbestimmungsgesetz (Self-Determination Act) and wants to remove all remaining legal inequalities affecting queer people. It also calls for rehabilitating everyone convicted under Section 175 and for education in schools.

The Tierschutzpartei wants equal rights for queer people. Queer means, for example, gay, lesbian or trans. Schools should teach about this topic. All men once punished for homosexuality should be cleared.

According to the platform, the 2017 rehabilitation does not cover everyone affected because a higher age of consent was applied to homosexuals; the party regards this as discrimination. School lessons should convey that all sexual orientations and gender identities are of equal worth, justified by the higher suicide rate among queer youth. In the long run the party aims for gender-neutral and plain language.