6 Amendments of Bettina VOLLATH related to 2019/2125(INI)
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Highlights that trade and human rights reinforce each other, and that the business community has an important role to play in offering positive incentives in terms of promoting human rights, democracy and corporate responsibility; remindscalls on the Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) of the needurgently to make effective and binding use of human rights clauses within international agreements, based on not only to ensure political dialogue, and the regular assessment of progress and recourse to the consultation procedure upon request from a party but also to enable serious efforts to be made to set up an effective, legally-binding sanction mechanism for grave human rights abuses arising from the business activities of companies; requests that robust implementation and monitoring mechanisms of human rights clauses be put in place, involving Parliament, local civil society and relevant international organisations, as well as establishing a complaints mechanism for groups of citizens and stakeholders who are affected by human rights violations;
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Condemns in the strongest possible terms Turkey’s war of aggression, in violation of international law, against northern and eastern Syria and particularly the use of banned weapons, as well as the Turkish army’s cooperation with terrorist militias and the associated displacement of Kurds, Armenians, Syrian Armenians and members of other ethnic and religious groups in the region, and calls on the EU to respond to Turkey’s actions with a strict weapons embargo and tough economic sanctions. In this regards, calls on the EU firmly to demand the withdrawal of the Turkish army of occupation and its associated militias from Afrin and the return and compensation of the people driven out in 2018;
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Calls on the international community officially to recognise, at the political and international level, genocides such as that committed against the Yazidi in Sinjar, Iraq in August 2014 and to provide support and measures for legal processing of the crimes and for the reconstruction of the region, as well as ensuring, for example by means of civilian observer missions, that similar persecution on the scale of genocide in Iraq and Syria will be prevented in the future;
Amendment 420 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Calls on the Commission to put forward a legislative proposal for compliance with transparency and due diligence obligations in the area of human rights and environmental protection which calls on companies to respect human rights and the environment in their global value chains and operations; stresses the need for victims of violations by companies to have better access to means of legal redress under the new legislation; notes the need for binding EU legislation to ensure protection for individuals, communities, workers, human rights defenders and their representatives, as well as for the environment;
Amendment 423 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 b (new)
Paragraph 25 b (new)
25b. calls for a compensation obligation system in the event of a company’s economic or commercial activities violating fundamental human rights;
Amendment 424 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 c (new)
Paragraph 25 c (new)
25c. Stresses that human rights due diligence tests should be ongoing and be conducted as early as possible, and certainly whenever a new business activity is being established, as risks to human rights can change as a company’s business activities develop and the business environment undergoes changes. Risks to human rights can increase or decrease while contracts and other agreements are being drawn up or can be prevented when mergers or takeovers happen;