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The FDP parliamentary group wants to better protect women's rights in the digital space and fight gender-specific crimes more strongly.
"The federal government must intensify its efforts so that women can move around the Internet just as freely as men," according to SPIEGEL information in an application for the Bundestag.
In it, the parliamentary group proposes eleven measures, such as central offices in the police and judiciary, which among other things have trained staff to deal with those affected.
In addition, it should also be possible in future to place advertisements digitally in all federal states.
Gender-specific digital crimes should be recorded separately in crime statistics (a report on digital violence against women politicians can be found here, a podcast on the subject can be found here).
All of this is necessary because women are "particularly affected in sexist and patriarchal societies," according to the motion that was initiated by the human rights policy spokeswoman, Gyde Jensen, and the women's policy spokeswoman, Nicole Bauer.
Digital violence is often "the beginning of a long history of suffering for those affected - often women who experience domestic violence or, in the worst case, are even killed by their partner or ex-partner," says Bauer.
"We must finally take digital crimes as harbingers seriously."
Violent acts against women have persisted at a high level for many years.
In 2019, a woman was killed by her partner or ex-partner on average every second or third day.
On average, every 33 minutes, the police recorded a woman who had been the victim of completed or attempted dangerous or serious bodily harm in her home environment.
Most recently, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer changed his stance on the precise recording of misogynist crimes and announced that he would implement this with the federal states.
Digital State Minister Dorothee Bär (CSU), the SPD, the Greens and the Women's Union had spoken out in favor of such an expansion of police crime statistics.
Women experts also demand that Paragraph 46 of the Criminal Code, on aggravating motives, be supplemented with “gender-specific”.
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