5 Amendments of Ana GOMES related to 2017/2206(INI)
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas ancestral lands and other traditional territorial domains are indispensable for ethnic groups, tribal communities and indigenous peoples to exercise their right to self-determination; whereas traditional indigenous territories 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 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
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 lead to the displacement of their populations; whereas in some federal states, it remains unclear whether the duty of involving indigenous peoples in the administration of their ancestral lands and resources falls under the jurisdiction of the Federal Government or the regional states; whereas any wrongful seizure and usurpation of land by Federal Governments can lead to illegal expropriations of territories, land dispossessions, discriminatory displacements and forced evictions and resettlements, contributing to a policy of disruptive ‘villagisation’, which would further marginalise the rights of indigenous peoples and economically disempower local communities in favour of oppressive autocratic federal regimes;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Urges the EU and its Member States to monitor and publicly report the land acquisitions involving EU-based corporations and actors or EU-funded development projects in countries where such deals could result in the violation of human rights, namely related to the indispensable consent of affected indigenous communities, instructing and capacitating EU Delegations and embassies for that purpose ;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on all States to respect, protect and fulfil smallholders’ land rights as well as the rights of individuals to other resources such as water, forests, livestock and fisheries; recognises that discriminatory expropriation of land and forced evictions, which adversely affect populations in developing countries, may have significant impacts on their livelihoods and constrict fundamental human rights such as the right to life, the right to food, the right to housing, the right to health and the right to property;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Recognises that some States rely on foreign land to cover their own national food supplies; calls on all States, particularly land-leasing states, to duly consider the effects of private land investments, including for the promotion of large-scale agriculture and urbanisation, on indigenous peoples and local communities, taking into account the impact that such investment plans might have on natural resources, on livelihoods, on the environment including ecosystems, wildlife habitats and biodiversity, on inadvertent displacements of poor or more vulnerable populations and on poverty and self-determination rights of local populations; notes that land-leases are often connected to forced relocations and mass resettlements of indigenous peoples under the pretext of involuntary ‘villagisation’ programmes, which result in the disruption of entire smallholders and pastoralist communities;