Activities of Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY related to 2017/2206(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on violation of the rights of indigenous peoples in the world, including land grabbing
Amendments (8)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls Article 21 TEU, Article 208 TFEU, Agenda 2030 and the fact that the EU is bound by a rights-based approach to development;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Deplores the allegations that some ODA projects, specially blending ones, 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 obligations in all domestic and international mitigation and adaptation instruments;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Stresses the need to adopt specific measures to address conflict timber, to stem the flow of conversion timber, and to shift investment away from forest- damaging activities resulting in displacement of local and indigenous communities; calls on the EU to adopt additional measures to support the protection and restoration of forest ecosystems and their communities, and eliminate deforestation from the EU’s supply chains, as part of a new EU Action Plan on deforestation, forest degradation and respect for forest communities tenure rights;
Amendment 31 #
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 to actively support partner countries in this and in applying the principle of free, prior and informed consent to large-scale land acquisitions;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
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; calls for the suspension of those BITs which threaten human rights; calls on development finance institutions to strengthen their human rights safeguards;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the fact 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 shouldmust be binding for all EU ODA projects;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Warmly welcomes the work initiated in the preparation of a binding UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights which it is believed will enhance social corporate responsibility and curve impunity; regrets any obstructive behaviour in relation to this process, and calls for the EU and its Member States to engage constructively in these negotiations;