10 Amendments of László TŐKÉS related to 2017/2206(INI)
Amendment 24 #
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 negativen impact on their ways of life or that can lead to the displacement of their populations;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas increasing demand and growing competition over natural resources is driving a ‘global land rush’ that in several countries is putting the territories traditionally inhabited and used by indigenous peoples and local communities under unsustainable pressure; whereas the exploitation of those natural resources by the agribusiness, energy, timber and mining sectors, among other extractive industries, as well as by illegal logging and large infrastructure and development projects as well as governments and the local population, constitutes one of the main causes of enduring conflict over land tenure and the main cause for water and soil contamination;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Urges the EU and its Member States to redoublestrengthen their efforts in order to ensure the physical integrity and the legal assistance of indigenous, environmental and land rights defenders, taking particular account of the protection of women, children and people with disabilities;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on all states, including the EU and its Member States, to ensure that their environmental conservation policpolitical strategies fully respect the rights of indigenous peoples and rural communities so that when protected areas are created or extended, compliance with these rights has already been established;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Urges the EU and its Member Sall states to monitor and publicly report the land acquisitions, particularly those involving EU-based corporations and actors or EU-funded development projects, in countries where such deals could result in the violation of human rights, instructing and capacitating EU Delegations and embassies for that purpose ;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the EU to set up a grievance mechanism whereby indigenous and local communities can lodge complaints regarding violations and abuses of their rights resulting from EU-based business activities or EU development or investment projects, regardless of the country where the violations and abuses occurred, in order to ensure that the victims have effective access to justice, as well as to technical and legal assistance; calls on the EU and the Member States to engage in the negotiations to adopt a legally binding international human rights instrument for transnational corporations and other companies;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 4
Subheading 4
Sustainable and economic development tofor indigenous people
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on all states to commit themselves to ensuring that indigenous peoples have genuine access to health and, education and economic opportunities, to promoting intercultural public policies, to incorporating indigenous languages and cultures into their school programs and to developing initiatives to raise awareness among civil society of the rights of indigenous peoples and the importance of respecting their beliefs and values in order to tackle prejudice and misinformation;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Recommends that greater prominence be given to this issuee situation of indigenous peoples in the EU’s foreign policy, including in its human rights dialogues with third countries, EU policy documents as well as in trade, cooperation and development agreements negotiated or concluded with other countries; calls on the EU and its Member States to take into account the result of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in the annual monitoring report in order to ascertain the conformity of their policies with the rights of indigenous peoples;
Amendment 201 #
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, lands and resources of indigenous peoples rigorously comply with the principle of free, prior and informed consent;