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Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - An alliance of those affected, trade unions, religious communities and professional associations calls for better protection against discrimination in offices, authorities and schools.
Despite the General Equal Treatment Act at the federal level, there are still blatant gaps in protection at the state level, the state working group on anti-discrimination advice announced on Monday in Stuttgart.
The next state government must introduce an anti-discrimination law at state level in the coming legislative period.
The advice centers against discrimination repeatedly received inquiries from people who were discriminated against in schools, universities, offices and authorities as well as by the police or the judiciary.
Over 60 associations and organizations have joined the call for an anti-discrimination law.
"A situation that clearly represents discrimination under the General Equal Treatment Act at the workplace, in the gym or at the hairdresser is assessed differently at school, the immigration office or the police," said one of the initiators, Lara Track from the anti-discrimination office in Heidelberg.
"There is no explicit protection against discrimination here."
That is absolutely incomprehensible.
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In Berlin there is already an anti-discrimination law (LADG) at the state level - it is intended to protect people in the capital from being discriminated against by authorities, for example because of their skin color or origin.
It is intended to make lawsuits easier if people feel that they have been treated unfairly by police officers or other representatives of the authorities.
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