Our Amsterdam, your life
BIJ1 is fighting for a city that adapts to its inhabitants, not the other way around. We want a radically equal city that is accessible to all. That means no narrow, overcrowded pavements, no public buildings without lifts and no incomprehensible letters from the municipality.
Amsterdam also leaves much to be desired in the area of freedom. For example, Muslim women are told what they may or may not wear, people requesting abortions are regularly threatened at the clinic and neuro-divergent children still have to undergo harmful forms of therapy.
This is unacceptable. In our city, you have the right to dress how you want, to love who you want, to express yourself how you want, to believe what you want and to go wherever you want. This includes having correct and complete information about matters concerning you and your body.
- Accessibility policies should always be drawn up with and by people with lived experience.
- Every new object or building in the public space must comply with the UN Convention on Disability and the Accessibility Manual.
- Public toilets in the city will be free and accessible to all. There will also always be a gender-neutral option.
- All written communication from the municipality will be at language level B1 and in a larger font.
- There will be special attention within the MDRA for reports of ableism.
- Anti-abortion demonstrators will be kept away from all clinics in Amsterdam.
- Abortion care must be accessible to everyone, including undocumented migrants. The municipality will stars an information campaign to increase the accessibility of abortion care.
- In cooperation with the Dutch Association for a Voluntary End to Life, a register will be drawn up of doctors and institutions who are prepared to assist with voluntary termination of life.
- The municipality exerts pressure on local health care institutions not to use harmful forms of therapy on neurodivergent children and adolescents.
- The municipality will continue not enforcing the ban on the niqab, in order to ensure the right to self-determination of Muslim women.
- The municipality will take non-traditional family setups into account.