6 Amendments of Gabriele ZIMMER related to 2009/2213(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Article 1
Article 1
1. Asks the European Union and the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries to redirect their cooperation towards human rights protection as a solution to the crisis, including the threefour categories of fundamental rights: political, social, environmental and cultural rights;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Article 4
Article 4
4. Calls for the fight against poverty and climate change, which hits the world's poorest people the hardest, to become a key focus of the EU-LAC strategy; suggests developing a new economic model based on the conservation of forests and natural resources and on sustainable agriculture;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Article 5
Article 5
5. Calls for the recognition of food sovereignty and an end to policies involving the exploitation of natural resources for export; calls, therefore, for an end to major hydraulic engineering, mining and forestry projects, biopiracy and the appropriation of land (especially for the purpose of producing biofuels, which are not a sustainable solution to climate change); calls on the EU to devise mechanisms under which penalties can be imposed on EU-based transnational corporations for environmental crimes committed in third countries;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Article 7
Article 7
7. Calls for an end to bilateral agreements and multilateral trade agreements that focus solely on free trade, to the detriment of human rights and social and cultural rights, or have the effect of fragmenting regional blocs such as the Andean Community;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Article 7 a (new)
Article 7 a (new)
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Article 8
Article 8
8. Calls, in the context of the strategy developed with a view to arriving at a global interregional partnership agreement by 2015, for agreements and investment to be redirected to the poorest countries in order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015;