Activities of Louis MICHEL related to 2017/2206(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on violation of the rights of indigenous peoples in the world, including land grabbing
Amendments (22)
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. 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; whereas, due to their close relationship with the land and their lifestyle, which is directly reliant on the consistency and availability of natural resources, indigenous people are the most vulnerable to the negative impact generated by climate change;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Deplores the allegations that ODA projects have negatively affected the rights of indigenous peoples; regrets that the REDD+ programme has failed to secure tenure rights for local forest communities; urges the EU to support the inclusion of human rights obligations in all domestic and international mitigation and adaptation instruments; points out that the EU has established an array of policies in the form of human rights, development and financing instruments to support the rights of indigenous peoples;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Points out that the FLEGT initiative, set up to tackle illegal logging and the resulting illegal profits, may help to make the REDD+ programme a success by promoting, in particular, improvements to forest governance and law enforcement;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Recognises the knowledge held by indigenous communities when it comes to protecting biodiversity and environmental conservation; calls on the international community to recognise and safeguard solidarity and third-generation rights with a view, in particular, to keeping the environment healthy, taking the measures required to tackle climate change, fostering development and protecting the common heritage of humankind;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that indigenous women suffer double discrimination; calls on the international community to encourage partner countries to take measures that enable indigenous women to exercise their rights to the full, including their right to ownership, and to take part in political life; calls on the countries concerned to foster the empowerment of women;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Points out that women and young people in indigenous communities have a right to sexual and reproductive health; calls for support for the CSOs working on those issues;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the international community to recognise and consolidate the forms of governance and representation specific to indigenous peoples with a view to establishing a constructive dialogue with local, national and regional authorities and the private sector;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the fact that the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests will become binding for the External Investment Plan; insists that they should be binding for all EU ODA projects; draws attention to the right of indigenous peoples to retain control over the resources they need for their survival and development, in particular in the area of fisheries;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for the EU to take legally binding measures to hold corporations accountable for breaches of human rights in third countries and to provide effective remedy, complaint and sanc, sanction and reparation mechanisms.
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Points out that the United Nations General Assembly has declared 2019 the International Year of Indigenous Languages; emphasises that culture is a factor for development;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas a great number of EU- based investors and companies are involved in hundreds of land acquisition operations in Africa, Asia and Latin America, which sometimes leads to violations of the rights of indigenous and local communities; whereas in many cases, given ththey have multiple foreign ramifications of those actors, it can prove, which can make it difficult to trace their roots directly to the EU and its Member Statescountries of origin;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls for specific legal arrangements to be drawn up which enable indigenous peoples to benefit from their own knowledge, prevent it from being exploited illegally and secure recognition for it, as stipulated, for example, by the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas the obligation to protect and provide access to remedy under the European Convention on Human Rights applies both to extraterritorial activities and to domestic activities with extraterritorial impact; whereas the degree of commitment of the EU and its Member States to their extraterritorial obligations is currently very weakshould be considerably increased;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Calls on the partner countries to take measures to combat the socio- cultural isolation of a young generation which has lost its bearings and has been marginalised both inside and outside its own communities;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
Recital L a (new)
La. E. whereas the EU provides assistance for the promotion and protection of democracy and human rights worldwide through the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR), which is complementary to its other external assistance instruments and is mainly channelled through civil society organisations; whereas due to its mechanism protectdefenders.eu, EU provides swift assistance to Human Rights Defenders at risk, helps them meet their most urgent needs and reinforces their capacities to do their work in the medium and long term;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 d (new)
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6d. Draws attention to the role which diasporas play as an interface with and a conduit for knowledge to indigenous peoples;
Amendment 95 #
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 strategies for tackling climate change; notes that the lives and identities of indigenous people depend heavily on their close relationship with the land, which in case of irreparable damage left by climate change, can force them to migrate and lead to their double discrimination - as environmentally displaced people and indigenous people;
Amendment 106 #
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 and land rights defenders; , with dedicated attention to women human rights activists; stresses, in this context, the importance of the EIDHR-supported mechanism ProtectDefenders.eu and calls for its continuation and increase in its funding, so that it can timely respond to the requests of the human rights defenders at risk;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Remains concerned about the situation with respect to land grabbing as a result of corrupt practices by corporations, foreign investors, national and international State actors, officials and authorities; underlines that corruption enables land grabbing, often with forced evictions, by, inter alia, granting third parties tainted control of land without the consent of the people who live on that land, particularly indigenous people;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Urges the EU and its Member States to monitor and publicly reprequire disclosure and to monitort 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 rightorder to increase the transparency and accountability of those acquisitions, instructing and capacitating EU Delegations and embassies for that purpose ;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the EU and its Member States to promote and support indigenous peoples' organisations that have a social development agenda which designs and develops legal and institutional framework for the demarcation and titling of indigenous territories; outlines that recognizing and formalizing indigenous peoples’ lands and empowering indigenous people’s authorities and community members would ensure sustainability, social accountability and would contribute to the resolve of land disputes and conflicts within the state;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on all states to ensure that indigenous communities benefit from sustainable tourism revenues and are protected from the adverse impact ofthat mass tourism might bring, and welcomes examples of shared management of reserves and protected areas that allow better protection of ecosystems and control of tourism flows;