11 Amendments of Alojz PETERLE related to 2017/2206(INI)
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas traditionalerritories which have traditionally been inhabited by indigenous territoripeoples encompass approximately 22 % of the world’s land surface and are estimated to hold 80 % of the planet’s biodiversity; whereas the tropical forests inhabited by indigenous peoples and local communities contribute, at least for one quarter, to store carbon across the tropical forest biome, making them valuable in any strategy to address climate change;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas indigenous peoples hold a unique relationship with the land and environment in which they live, utilizing available natural resources to establish unique systems of knowledge, innovations and practices related to the use and management of these lands, which in turn shapes a fundamental part of their identity and spirituality;
Amendment 20 #
C. whereas human rights treaties recognise the right of indigenous peoples to their ancestral lands and resources and provide that states must consult indigenous peoples in good faith in order to obtain their free, prior and informed consent pertaining to projects that can have a negative impact on their ways of life or that can, threaten the natural resources they have traditionally cultivated and continue to depend upon or lead to the displacement of their populations;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the collective and individual rights of indigenous peoples continue to be violated in various regions of the world, and as a result they continue to face physical, psychological and sexual violence as well as racism, exclusion, discrimination, forced evictions, destructive settlement, illegal expropriation of their traditional domains or deprivation of access to their resources and, livelihoods and traditional knowledge;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas traditional knowledge can be defined as practical knowledge, skills and practices that have been developed, sustained and transmitted from generation to generation within a community, often contributing to the cultural or spiritual identity, having been developed communally and jointly, therefore to be considered as collective property of the entire community; whereas this traditional knowledge has been a significant contributing factor to the development of humanity; whereas the modern commercial use and reification of this knowledge threatens the role of indigenous peoples as the traditional holders and custodians of this knowledge;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the EU, the Member States and their partners in the international community to adopt all necessary measures for the full recognition, protection and promotion of the rights of indigenous peoples and the protection of their property;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on all states, including the EU and the Member States, to include indigenous peoples and rural communities in their decision making processes used to determine strategies for tackling climate change;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Urges the EU and its Member States to redouble their efforts in order to ensure the physical integrity and the legal assistance of indigenous, environmental, intellectual property and land rights defenders;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Recommends that the EU develops a European regional action plan for business and human rights, guided by the principles enshrined in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and calls for the development and enforcement of national action plans focused on this issue;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Invites the EU to urge its partner states to draw up inclusive social policies for indigenous peoples in ancurrently living in traditional territories or urban environments, in order to reduce the effects of uprooting and of the mismatch between their traditional capabilities and contemporary metropolitan dynamics;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls on the EU to ensure that all EU-funded development projects that could in any way negatively affect the livelihoods, culture, lands and resources of indigenous peoples rigorously comply with the principle of free, prior and informed consent;