8 Amendments of Florian PHILIPPOT related to 2017/2206(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
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1. Recalls Article 208 TFEU, which specifies that the primary objective of Union development cooperation policy is to eradicate poverty and that the Union and the Member States must meet the undertakings given and the objectives set in the United Nations and other competent international organisations; recalls, further, Agenda 2030 and the fact that the EU is bound by a rights-based approach to development;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls Article 208 TFEU, Agenda 2030 and the fact that the EU is bound by a rights-based approach to development, particularly the rights of societies and peoples from third countries which receive support under co-development programmes;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. DeploresIs alarmed by the allegations that ODA projects have negatively affected the rights of indigenous peoples; regrets that the REDD+ programme has failed to secure tenure rights for local forest communities; urges the EU to support the inclusion of human rights and, more specifically, indigenous rights obligations in all domestic and international mitigation and adaptation instruments;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
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3. Urges partner countries to recognise and protect indigenous peoples’ rightsall the rights of indigenous peoples, particularly with regard to customary ownership and control of their lands and natural resources as set out in the UNDRIP and ILO Convention 169; calls for the EU to support partner countries in this and in applying the principle of free, prior and informed consent to large-scale land acquisitions;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Urges partner countries to recognise and protect indigenous peoples’ rights to customary ownership and control of their lands and natural resources as set out in the UNDRIP and ILO Convention 169; calls for the EU Member States to support partner countries in this and in applying the principle of free, prior and informed consent to large-scale land acquisitions;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that bilateral investment agreements fail to recognise indigenous peoples’ land rights; recalls that international investment law has to respect international human rights law, particularly where it concerns the rights of indigenous peoples; calls on development finance institutions to strengthen their human rights safeguards;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the factNotes that the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests will become binding for the External Investment Plan; insists that they should be binding fordeplores that decision; insists that the guidelines should reflect the fact that States have sovereign powers in respect of these matters and all EU ODA projects;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
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6. Calls for the EUeach Member State to take legally binding measures to hold corporations under their jurisdiction accountable for breaches of human rights in third countries and to provide effective remedy, complaint and sanction mechanisms.