2017/2206(INI) Violation of the rights of indigenous peoples in the world, including land grabbing
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Progress: Procedure completed
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ASSIS Francisco ( S&D)
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ZELLER Joachim ( PPE),
KARSKI Karol ( ECR),
CORRAO Ignazio ( EFDD)
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| Committee Opinion | FEMM |
MARCELLESI Florent ( Verts/ALE)
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Arne GERICKE ( ECR),
Angelika MLINAR ( ALDE),
Marijana PETIR ( PPE),
Ángela VALLINA ( GUE/NGL)
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| Committee Opinion | DEVE |
HEUBUCH Maria ( Verts/ALE)
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Louis MICHEL ( ALDE),
Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY ( GUE/NGL),
Eleni THEOCHAROUS ( ECR)
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The European Parliament adopted by 534 votes to 71, with 73 abstentions, a resolution on violation of the rights of indigenous peoples in the world, including land grabbing.
The total population of indigenous peoples is estimated to be over 370 million people living in over 70 countries worldwide, representing around 5 % of the total world population. There are at least 5 000 distinct indigenous peoples, who, despite their geographical dispersion, face similar threats and challenges.
These people are victims of violence as well as racism, discrimination, forced evictions, destructive settlement, and illegal expropriation of their ancestral lands or lack of access to their resources, livelihoods and traditional knowledge.
Parliament called upon the Union and Member States to:
adopt all necessary measures for the full recognition, protection and promotion of the rights of indigenous peoples, including to their lands, territories and resources; make sure that all its development, investment and trade policies respect the human rights of indigenous peoples as enshrined in human rights treaties and conventions; follow all the necessary steps to effectively comply with the provisions contained in International Labour Organisation Convention No 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples; create conditions for the fulfilment of the objectives set out in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and to encourage its international partners to adopt and implement it fully;
Rights of indigenous peoples : the EU was called upon to support the Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and legally recognise the territorial autonomy and self-determination of indigenous people, which implies their right to own, use, develop and control their lands, territories, waters and costal seas, and other resources that they possess by reason of traditional ownership.
The resolution stressed the importance of:
ensuring universal access for indigenous peoples to their national population registers; conducting mandatory human rights impact assessments of any new activity in the mining and oil and gas extraction sectors prior to the commencement of these activities; including indigenous peoples and rural communities in the decision-making process with regard to strategies for tackling climate change, and consulting them in all deliberations on issues that could affect them; ensuring physical integrity and legal assistance for indigenous, environmental, intellectual property and land rights defenders, and fully respect the rights of indigenous peoples and rural communities; support indigenous peoples’ requests for international repatriation and the establishment of an international mechanism to fight the sale of indigenous artefacts taken from them illegally, including through financial assistance under the EIDHR.
Parliament called for the withdrawal of private security and military forces deployed in the territories of indigenous peoples in violation of their rights.
Land grabbing : Members remained concerned about the situation of land grabbing as a result of corrupt practices by corporations, foreign investors, national and international state actors, officials and authorities. They called on the EU to:
place greater emphasis on the issue of land grabbing; request disclosure of land acquisitions involving EU-based corporations and actors or EU-funded development projects in order to increase the transparency and accountability of those acquisitions; adopt the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests and support their implementation.
Business and human rights : Parliament called for the EU to :
ensure that the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights are fully integrated into the national programmes of Member States and incorporated into the practices and operations of transnational corporations and business enterprises with European ties; engage in constructive negotiations on a UN treaty on transnational corporations that guarantees respect for the human rights of indigenous peoples, and of women and girls in particular; develop a European regional action plan for business and human rights , guided by the principles enshrined in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; hold multinational corporations and international financial institutions to account for their impact on indigenous communities’ human and environmental rights ; establish an effective administrative complaint mechanism for victims of human rights violations and other harmful impacts induced by official development assistance-funded activities with a view to initiating investigation and reconciliation processes.
Sustainable and economic development : highlighting the essential role of indigenous peoples in protecting the environment, Parliament called on the EU to include indigenous peoples, and especially indigenous women and rural communities, in their strategies for tackling climate change and in the design of efficient climate strategies relating to adaptation and mitigation. It requested that the issue of climate-induced displacement be taken seriously.
Given that 80 % of forests worldwide constitute traditional lands and territories of indigenous peoples, Members stressed the vital role of indigenous peoples for sustainable management of natural resources and conservation of biodiversity . They recalled that the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) calls upon its states parties to respect the knowledge and rights of indigenous peoples.
In addition they noted that between 200 and 500 million people worldwide practise pastoralism. Parliament stressed the need to foster sustainable pastoralism and, more broadly, to recognise pastoralists’ and indigenous peoples’ rights related to communal ownership of ancestral land, their right to freely dispose of their natural resources and their rights to culture and religion.
It called on all states to commit to ensuring that indigenous peoples have genuine access to health, education, employment and economic opportunities.
Lastly, Parliament recommended that greater prominence be given to the situation of indigenous people in the EU’s foreign policy , that a mechanism be established to carry out independent impact assessment studies prior to the conclusion of trade and cooperation agreements in order to prevent their deleterious effects on the rights of indigenous and that the EU strengthen support for indigenous peoples as part of its development cooperation programmes.
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The Committee on Foreign Affairs adopted an own-initiative report by Francisco ASSIS (S&D, PT) on violation of the rights of indigenous peoples in the world, including land grabbing.
The total population of indigenous peoples is estimated to be over 370 million people living in over 70 countries worldwide , representing around 5 % of the total world population. There are at least 5 000 distinct indigenous peoples, who, despite their geographical dispersion, face similar threats and challenges.
These people are victims of violence as well as racism, discrimination, forced evictions, destructive settlement, and illegal expropriation of their ancestral lands or lack of access to their resources, livelihoods and traditional knowledge.
Members called upon the Union and Member States to:
adopt all necessary measures for the full recognition, protection and promotion of the rights of indigenous peoples, including to their lands, territories and resources; make sure that all its development, investment and trade policies respect the human rights of indigenous peoples as enshrined in human rights treaties and conventions; follow all the necessary steps to effectively comply with the provisions contained in International Labour Organisation Convention No 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples and recalls that all ratifying states are obliged to develop coordinated and systematic action to protect.
Rights of indigenous peoples : the EU was called upon to legally recognise the territorial autonomy and self-determination of indigenous people, which implies their right to own, use, develop and control their lands, territories, waters and costal seas, and other resources that they possess by reason of traditional ownership.
The report stresses the importance of:
ensuring universal access for indigenous peoples to their national population registers; conducting mandatory human rights impact assessments of any new activity in the mining and oil and gas extraction sectors prior to the commencement of these activities; including indigenous peoples and rural communities in the decision-making process with regard to strategies for tackling climate change, and consulting them in all deliberations on issues that could affect them; ensuring physical integrity and legal assistance for indigenous, environmental, intellectual property and land rights defenders, and fully respect the rights of indigenous peoples and rural communities.
The report called for the withdrawal of private security and military forces deployed in the territories of indigenous peoples in violation of their rights.
Land grabbing : Members remained concerned about the situation of land grabbing as a result of corrupt practices by corporations, foreign investors, national and international state actors, officials and authorities. They called on the EU to:
place greater emphasis on the issue of land grabbing; request disclosure of land acquisitions involving EU-based corporations and actors or EU-funded development projects in order to increase the transparency and accountability of those acquisitions; adopt the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests and support their implementation.
Business and human rights : Members called for the EU to engage in constructive negotiations on a UN treaty on transnational corporations that guarantees respect for the human rights of indigenous peoples, and of women and girls in particular. They recommended that the EU develop a European regional action plan for business and human rights , guided by the principles enshrined in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
The EU must work to hold multinational corporations and international financial institutions to account for their impact on indigenous communities’ human and environmental rights.
Sustainable and economic development : Members called on the EU to include indigenous peoples, and especially indigenous women and rural communities, in their strategies for tackling climate change and in the design of efficient climate strategies relating to adaptation and mitigation. They requested that the issue of climate-induced displacement be taken seriously and stated that they were open to a debate on establishing a provision concerning climate migration .
Members recalled that 80 % of forests worldwide constitute traditional lands and territories of indigenous peoples and stressed the vital role of indigenous peoples for sustainable management of natural resources and conservation of biodiversity. In addition they noted that between 200 and 500 million people worldwide practise pastoralism.
The committee stressed the need to foster sustainable pastoralism and, more broadly, to recognise pastoralists’ and indigenous peoples’ rights related to communal ownership of ancestral land, their right to freely dispose of their natural resources and their rights to culture and religion.
Lastly, the report recommended that greater prominence be given to the situation of indigenous people in the EU’s foreign policy , that a mechanism be established to carry out independent impact assessment studies prior to the conclusion of trade and cooperation agreements in order to prevent their deleterious effects on the rights of indigenous and that the EU strengthen support for indigenous peoples as part of its development cooperation programmes.
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EP - Committee draft report
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- Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament: T8-0279/2018
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Committee report tabled for plenary: A8-0194/2018
- Committee opinion: PE618.035
- Committee opinion: PE616.843
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE618.008
- Committee draft report: PE615.257
- Committee draft report: PE615.257
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE618.008
- Committee opinion: PE616.843
- Committee opinion: PE618.035
Activities
- Marianne THYSSEN
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- Xabier BENITO ZILUAGA
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- Georgios EPITIDEIOS
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- José Inácio FARIA
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- Florent MARCELLESI
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- Notis MARIAS
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- Cristian Dan PREDA
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- Fernando RUAS
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- Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER
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- Csaba SÓGOR
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- Adam SZEJNFELD
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- Pavel TELIČKA
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- Renate WEBER
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- Bogdan Brunon WENTA
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- Joachim ZELLER
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A8-0194/2018 - Francisco Assis - commission AFET résolution 03/07/2018 12:54:09.000 #
2018/07/03 Outcome: +: 534, 0: 73, -: 71
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221 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 3 a (new) - having regard to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights as well as to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas indigenous peoples around the world live in harmony with their ecosystems, nourishing deep bonds with all living organisms on their lands; whereas their traditional knowledge and practices are of great importance for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity; whereas indigenous peoples are particularly vulnerable to the pernicious effects of climate change due to their close dependence on highly exposed ecosystems;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Calls on all states, including the European Union and its Member States, to recognise indigenous peoples as equal partners in all deliberations on issues that
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Calls on all states, including the European Union and its Member States, to recognise
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Calls on all States, including the EU and its Member States, to create conditions for the effective presence of representatives and leaders of indigenous peoples in civil society and public space, and for a more visible participation in the political system and indecision-making processes in matters that are relevant to them, including in constitutional reforms;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Invites all states, including the EU and its Member States, to contribute to the implementation and realization of the 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languages proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly(UNGA) Resolution on “Rights of Indigenous Peoples” (Ref.: A/RES/71/178, Para 13, adopted in December 2016);
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution 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; to that end, asks for an assurance that the European Union Human Rights Defenders mechanism will be continued and for an increase in its funding so that it can address alarming developments in the situation of human rights defenders almost everywhere in the world, attaching particular importance to environmental activists and to those defending the rights of indigenous peoples, including their right to land;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution 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, namely through the reinforcement of the EIDHR Emergency Fund targeted at indigenous peoples’ rights defenders at risk and of other relevant programmes; requests the EU to instruct and capacitate its delegations in relevant countries to increase monitoring and support of those defenders and report the violations of their human rights in a more systematic and forceful manner;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution 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
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Urges the EU and its Member States to
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution 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 109 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Urges the EU and its Member States to
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas indigenous peoples’ communal rights arise by virtue of a traditional occupation of their territories and the sense of belonging connecting them to said territories does not coincide with the concept of ownership as commonly conceived in western societies;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Denounces the continuing criminalisation of those who defend the rights of indigenous peoples, and the right to land, throughout the world; against this background, asks the European Union to use every available means to ensure the safety of the 2017 Sakharov Prize finalist and defender of indigenous peoples’ and environmental rights Lolita Chavez, who faces prosecution in some 10 cases in Guatemala, as well as multiple death threats;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Underlines that the protection and support for human rights defenders, including indigenous environmental rights defenders, must be a key strategic priority for the EU, in line with the aims of advancing sustainable development, building state and societal resilience, and taking a holistic integrated approach to conflicts prevention and resolution;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Calls on all States, including the European Union and its Member States, to prevent impunity for any crime committed against human rights defenders of indigenous peoples by being duly investigated and prosecuted;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 b (new) 9b. Requests the Commission to increase its involvement in the existing mechanisms for the protection of human rights in the European Union, as well as its commitment to the European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR), and those proposed by international organizations as the UN;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 c (new) 9c. Calls on the EEAS to join the plan designed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)to protect human rights defenders in Latin America;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Calls on all states, including the EU and its Member States, to ensure that their environmental conservation policies fully respect the rights of indigenous peoples and rural communities so that
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Calls on all states, including the EU and its Member States, to ensure that their
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Supports the request from Indigenous Peoples of international repatriation and the establishment of an international mechanism in order to fight against the selling of indigenous artefacts illegally taken from them; calls on the Commission to support such efforts, including through financial assistance under the EIDHR;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Calls the European Union and Member States, through political and human rights dialogues with third countries, to encourage the ratification the ILO Convention I169, the UNCRC and UNCRPD and adopt their optional protocols as well as to uphold the UNDRIP;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 b (new) 10b. Stresses that European Union and Member States have to make serious commitments to including indigenous children with disabilities in all policies, actions and programmes related to international cooperation and external relations;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution 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 120 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 c (new) 10c. Calls the EU to ensure intersectionality between indigenous and disability status in international legal frameworks, going beyond the inclusion of the ‘list of “vulnerable” groups’;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 d (new) 10d. Invites to ensure international frameworks on development and Disaster Risk Reduction, torture, inhumane and cruel treatment (including harmful traditional practices), access to justice and death penalty, and Free, Prior and Informed Consent pay attention to the situation, rights, needs and opportunities of Indigenous Persons with Disabilities and notably Indigenous Children with Disabilities;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 e (new) 10e. The EU should make sure that the Free, Prior and Informed Consent of people with disabilities living in indigenous communities is taken into account in any EU development project concerning Indigenous People, by ensuring information and documentation about any project sponsored or funded by the EU on indigenous territories is accessible to Indigenous Persons with Disabilities;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 f (new) 10f. Calls the EU partners in the private and public sector to provide complete and accessible information on human rights violations that have been frequently associated with and documented in relation to extractive industries or certain development projects (such as increased cases of sexual violence against indigenous women and children, including those with disabilities, extra-judicial killings, land degradation and pollution of water sources and land) as well as information on processes of relocation and characteristics of alternative resettlements;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 g (new) 10g. Calls the European Commission to mandate the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) to collect information on judicial and non-judicial mechanisms in Member States concerning access to remedy for victims of business related violations, including Indigenous Persons with Disabilities, as a follow-up of the April 2017 FRA opinion on ‘improving access to remedy in the area of business and human rights at the EU level’ (FRA, 2017);
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 h (new) 10h. Calls on the European Commission to launch the EU Action Plan on Responsible Business Conduct, the Commission’s intention having been welcomed by the Council of the European Union in its Conclusions of June 2016. This action plan should address the implementation of the UN guiding principles on business and human rights, including with regard to due diligence and access to remedy, and provide an overall policy framework;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Calls on the EU and its Member States for their human rights agendas to give greater emphasis to the issue of land grabbing;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Welcomes the International Criminal Court’s 2016 announcement that land grabbing and environmental destruction are the root causes of very many human rights violations and may henceforth bring charges of crimes against humanity;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Welcomes the International Criminal Court’s 2016 announcement that land grabbing and environmental destruction may henceforth
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution 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 13 #
Motion for a resolution 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 130 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Calls on the EU and its Member States to incite their partner States who are involved in post-conflict peace building which involve land rights to draw up measures to enable the return of dislocated indigenous and local communities to their traditional territories, as a crucial factor in achieving sustainable peace and social stabilization;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution 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, instructing and capacitating EU Delegations and embassies for that purpose
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution 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
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution 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
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Urges the EU and its Member States to
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Urges
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Stresses, once again, the inalienable right of peoples, and particularly indigenous peoples, to their resources and lands; stresses therefore that the issue of food sovereignty, understood as ‘the right of populations, their states or union of states, to define their own agricultural and food policies, whilst avoiding dumping products in any other country’, is crucial in seeking to put an end to land grabbing and food insecurity and to guarantee the rights of indigenous peoples and the right to food, as set down in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and that achieving that goal will mean moving away from the intensive farming and monocultures advocated by the agri-food sector, to the detriment of traditional farming, and developing partnerships based on the realisation of the Sustainable Development Goals; calls, therefore on the Member States to work on a world food plan, under the guidance of the FAO and with resources from an agricultural assistance fund financed through a tax on agri-food companies; stresses that this clearly implies a shift away from a system of farming founded on commercial negotiations, and the conclusion of new cooperation-based agreements as part of a sustainable approach to the shared development of agriculture in a way that is respectful of people and the planet;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Invites the Commission to establish a register of
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Invites
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution 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 indigenous reservations constitute the main barrier against deforestation; 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 140 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on all states, especially the EU and its Member States, to adopt and give their support to the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests of the Committee on World Food Security and to sign
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on all states, especially the EU and its Member States, to adopt and give their support to the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests of the Committee on World Food Security and to sign forest law enforcement, governance and trade voluntary partnership agreements with as many relevant countries as possible; calls on the Commission to ensure strict compliance with and implementation of the Timber Regulation and to sanction Member States that fail to comply with the Directive;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 – subparagraph 1 (new) Calls on all countries, including the EU and its Member States, to enable those countries hosting native peoples and rural communities to pursue economic development by using the land in their territory in accordance with global environmental protection policies;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution 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 144 #
Motion for a resolution 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 145 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Calls on the EU to guarantee an effective redress to indigenous and local communities victims of human rights abuses and violations resulting from the involvement of agents directly or indirectly linked to the EU in the context of land grabbing and industrialization and infrastructure projects, or resulting from development projects and investments launched and financed by the EU, including restitution and compensation, the possibility of return and the guarantee of non-recurrence;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution 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;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading 3 Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 b (new) 14b. Calls on the EU to ensure that the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights are fully integrated into the national programmes of Member States and are incorporated in the practices and operations of transnational corporations and business enterprises with European ties;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution 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 15 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas t
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15.
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Insists that the EU and its Member States must work to hold multinational corporations and international Financial institutions to account for their impact on indigenous communities, and their human and environmental rights, as well as for any implication of these institutions in threats or violence against indigenous communities or individuals;
Amendment 152 #
15a. Calls on the EU to ensure that all violations of the rights of indigenous peoples by European companies are duly sanctioned, and encourages the EU to withdraw any form of institutional or financial support to any undertakings and enterprises involved in violations of human rights;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution 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; calls, in this context, on the EU to support the negotiations under way at UN level with a view to concluding a binding treaty on the liability of multinationals;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution 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 with respect to human rights through active participation in the open- ended intergovernmental working group of the UN created specifically to fulfil this purpose;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Calls on the EU to set up a grievance mechanism, enforceable using the judicial architecture of the EU and its Member States, whereby indigenous and local communities can lodge complaints regarding violations and abuses of their rights resulting from EU-based
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Calls on the international community, including 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
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Calls on the EU to set up a grievance mechanism, in accordance with the Commission Recommendation 2013/396/EU adopted on 11 June 2013, whereby indigenous and local communities can lodge complaints regarding violations and abuses of their rights resulting from EU-based business activities
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution 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,
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Calls on the EU to
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution 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 160 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Calls on the Union and its Member States to guarantee access to remedy for victims of human rights abuses and violations arising from activities of Union-based companies by removing all barriers, both practical and legal, so that the division of responsibilities does not prevent accountability or deny access to justice in the country where the abuse occurred;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 b (new) 16b. Urges the Union to maintain support for the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGP) and to continue to promote its proper application;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 c (new) 16c. Recalls the responsibility of companies to guarantee the right to free, prior and informed consultation of indigenous peoples when projects, works or activities are to be carried out within their territories, and their necessary incorporation and subsequent application in their policies of corporate social responsibility;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Calls on the EU to fulfil its extraterritorial duties related to human rights, and resolves to request legislative proposals from the Commission and to work together with the European Council to create legislation to prevent and sanction extraterritorial violations of the rights of indigenous peoples and of local communities; encourages the Commission to consider an initiative on due diligence obligations for companies to make sure imported goods are not linked to land grabbing and serious violations of the rights of indigenous people; urges the EEAS to elaborate operational tools to provide guidance for staff in EU Delegations regarding the protection and promotion of human rights in the context of land grabbing, especially when involving EU-based actors;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Calls on the EU to fulfil its extraterritorial duties related to human rights
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Calls on the EU to fulfil its extraterritorial duties related to human rights, and resolves to request legislative
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17.
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17a. Calls for the introduction of effective arrangements for monitoring, and imposing penalties on, EU companies established in third countries or any companies exporting products to the EU, with a view to ensuring the observance of human rights, and in particular indigenous peoples’ rights; calls specifically for the establishment of joint and several liability between contracting and subcontracting enterprises so that, regardless of the nationality of the subcontractor committing the illegal act, those affected can take action against the main company, whether in the country where the illegal act has been committed or in the main company’s country of origin (the country in which it has its seat); calls for the inclusion in all economic agreements between the Union and third countries of an ad hoc clause worded along the following lines: ‘Undertakings that invest in a third country shall have civil and criminal liability for crimes and infringements committed by them and by their directors, management and members of decision- making bodies – whether single-member or collegiate. The said liability shall extend not only to the act of committing offences but also to aiding and abetting, collaborating in or instigating them, as well as incitement to and concealment of offences, so as to establish joint and several liability between contracting and subcontracting enterprises and to enable those affected to take action against the main company’;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17a. Calls on the EU to devise clear rules of conduct and regulatory frameworks for extraterritorial action by companies and investors that fall within its jurisdiction, in order to ensure that they respect the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities and that they can be properly held accountable and sanctioned when their activities result in the violations of those rights;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas land is a fundamental, limited and non-renewable natural resource which is an integral part of the natural wealth of every country and a prerequisite for food production, and whereas the fertility and preservation of land are the basis for a country’s stability and wealth, while the loss of land leads countries to failure;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading 4 Sustainable and economic development
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17a. Invites the EU and its Member States to integrate the issue of the rights of indigenous peoples and land grabbing in the EU’s implementation process with regard to the Agenda for Sustainable Development 2030;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading 4 a (new) Highlighting the key role played by indigenous people, through their lifestyle and development models, in protecting the environment
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Invites the EU to urge its partner states
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Invites the EU to urge its partner states to draw up inclusive social policies for indigenous peoples
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Invites the EU to urge its partner states to draw up inclusive social policies for indigenous peoples in
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) 18a. Highlights the role of indigenous peoples and local communities and stresses the need to incorporate indigenous and local know-how as well as to ensure a closer involvement, acceptance and engagement of the indigenous and local communities in the decision-making processes;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Calls on all states to commit themselves to ensuring that indigenous peoples have genuine access to health, employment and education, to promoting intercultural public policies, to incorporating indigenous languages, histories and cultures into their school programs and to developing initiatives to raise awareness among civil society, the general public and the media of the rights of indigenous peoples and the importance of respecting their beliefs, cultures and values in order to tackle prejudice and misinformation;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Calls on all states to commit themselves to ensuring that indigenous peoples have genuine access to health and education, to promoting intercultural public policies, to incorporating indigenous languages and cultures into their school programs in order to preserve, revitalize and promote indigenous languages 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 18 #
Motion for a resolution 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 180 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Calls on all states to commit themselves to ensuring that indigenous peoples have genuine access to health and education, to promoting intercultural public policies, to incorporating indigenous languages and cultures into their school programs or to providing supplementary extracurricular classes 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 181 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Calls on all states to commit themselves to ensuring that indigenous peoples have genuine access to health
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 a (new) 19a. Calls the EU and its partner states to provide culturally competent mental health services in partnership with indigenous communities in order to prevent substance abuse and suicide; stresses the importance to support organizations of indigenous women in order to empower women and increase their ability to engage in civil society;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 a (new) 19a. Calls on the EU and its Member States to support the efforts of indigenous peoples and local communities to develop their own business models and land management;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Calls on all states to ensure that indigenous communities benefit from sustainable tourism revenues and are protected from the adverse impact of mass tourism, and welcomes examples of shared management of reserves and protected areas that allow better protection of ecosystems and control of tourism flows; recalls, in this connection, the importance of the concept of sustainable development;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Calls on all states to ensure that indigenous communities benefit from sustainable tourism revenues and are protected from the adverse impact
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 a (new) 20a. Calls the EU and its partner states to enhance cooperation with indigenous communities in discussions of drug policies; reiterates that strategizing against the illicit drug market is necessary in order to protect indigenous people and lands; Calls the EU and its partner states to ensure that security measures aimed to combat the drug trade respect the rights of indigenous communities and to avoid the casualties of innocent parties in the conflict;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 a (new) 20a. Stresses the need to enable indigenous communities to benefit from the latest information technology to provide better quality of life, better healthcare and that this is an area where the EU can play a vital role; reiterates the right of the indigenous people to determine their own livelihoods and stresses the need for sustainable development;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 a (new) 20a. Address that it is vital to protect the indigenous cultures to preserve a wide range of cultural diversity, call for flag programmes to promote indigenous cultures for a better visibility and recognition at both national and international levels;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Recommends that greater prominence be given to this issue in the
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution 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 accordance with the right to self-determination, indigenous peoples have a right to freely determine their political status, freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development and freely dispose of their natural wealth and resources and in no case, are to be deprived of their means of subsistence;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Recommends that greater prominence be given to th
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21.
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 a (new) 21a. Emphasises that the EU and its Member States must raise the human rights of indigenous peoples and indigenous human rights defenders in bilateral and multilateral negotiations and diplomatic communications, and push for the release of imprisoned human rights defenders; calls on the EU and Member States to work to ensure that third country governments provide appropriate protection to indigenous communities and human rights defenders, and bring perpetrators of crimes against them to justice;
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 a (new) 21a. Calls on the EEAS, Commission and Member States to prioritise investment in support of civil society and human rights defenders, and particularly with regard to indigenous environmental human rights defenders, and to ensure the existence of long-term protection mechanisms to support them, in particular ProtectDefenders.eu, as well as to guarantee that they meet existing funding commitments to human rights defenders at risk;
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 b (new) 21b. Urges EEAS delegations and Member State embassies to review and improve their implementation of the EU Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders, taking into account the specific needs and threats of indigenous human rights defenders, as well as specific situation of indigenous human rights defenders who face multiple discrimination, such as women, elderly, LGBTI and those with disabilities; In that regard, insists that EU delegations and Member State embassies provide their staff with appropriate training and capacity to work with civil society and human rights defenders, to maintain contacts and provide support where needed;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 c (new) 21c. Encourages its Members to regularly meet with indigenous communities and human rights defenders when visiting the relevant countries;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 d (new) 21d. Emphasises that the EU and its Member States must raise the human rights of indigenous peoples and indigenous human rights defenders in bilateral and multilateral negotiations and diplomatic communications; Calls on the EU and Member States to work to ensure that third country governments provide appropriate protection to indigenous communities and human rights defenders, and bring perpetrators of crimes against them to justice;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 e (new) 21e. Calls on the EU and its Member States to continue to develop specific strategies to ensure the effective implementation of SDG 16 on promotion of peaceful and inclusive societies, ensuring that targeting, persecution and killings of human rights defenders are combated and stopped, and that the perpetrators are prosecuted and held accountable;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution 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, cultural heritage and resources of indigenous peoples rigorously comply with the principle of free, prior and informed consent, where the human rights and security, well-being, and freedom of expression and association is strictly guaranteed by the EU and third-country authorities, and any violations thereof would lead to the halting of the project;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution 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;
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 9 a (new) – having regard to its resolution of 27 October 2016 on the situation in Northern Iraq/Mosul,
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
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 22. Calls on the EU to ensure that all EU-funded development projects that could
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 22. Calls on the EU to ensure that all EU-funded development projects that could in any way
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 22. Calls on the EU to ensure that all EU-funded development projects that
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 a (new) 22a. Call on the European Commission to develop legislative proposals (and interim practice guidelines) setting out the precise human rights due diligence and other procedural duties to be observed by the EU and its Member States in order to achieve a rights-based approach to development cooperation, including obligations to ensure that prior and independent human rights impact assessments are conducted in relation to EU-funded and Member State-funded development projects that may have an impact on indigenous peoples and other highly land-connected communities;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 a (new) 22a. Calls on the EEAS and the Commission to carry out strict monitoring and evaluations of performance indicators in relation to each development aid granted and to provide for an urgency break mechanism for disbursement suspension in case of serious concerns of human rights breaches; stresses that this urgency mechanisms must be triggered as a preventive measure of possible abuses and as a way to diffuse escalation of violence, and never delayed or subject to failure of response in due time of the third-party recipients;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 a (new) 22a. Notes that the Commission, EEAS and Member States must take a holistic integrated approach to sustainable development, and take account of human rights and environmental considerations when addressing trade and economic relations; Calls on the Commission to raise cases of human rights violations and attacks or persecution of human rights defenders in the context of trade negotiations and systems such as GSP;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Calls on the EU to establish the obligation to carry out impact assessment studies prior to the conclusion of trade and cooperation agreements and to the implementation of development projects, in order to measure and prevent their deleterious effects on the rights of indigenous and local communities; Insists that these impact assessments must be carried out in a timely manner, with significant consultation, participation and input from civil society, and with the assessments’ findings duly incorporated into the respective agreements or projects;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Calls on the EU to establish the obligation to carry out impact assessment studies prior to the conclusion of trade and cooperation agreements and to the implementation of development projects, in order to measure and prevent their deleterious effects on the rights of indigenous and local communities, and to suspend the execution of such agreements and projects in the event of blatant violation of those rights;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Calls on the EU to establish the obligation to carry out prior and independent impact assessment studies prior to the conclusion of trade and cooperation agreements and to the implementation of development projects, in order to measure and prevent their deleterious effects on the rights of indigenous and local communities;
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Calls on the EU to
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas human rights treaties 1 a 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
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Calls on the EU to establish the obligation to carry out impact assessment studies
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 a (new) Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 a (new) 23a. Commits to explore the establishment of a committee of inquiry in order to investigate alleged breaches of the EU’s extraterritorial human rights obligations in the context of land grabbing in third countries;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 b (new) 23b. Recalls with concern that the EU and its Member States must continue to work to guarantee the rights and social inclusion of indigenous peoples in Europe, notably the Sami people, and recognises the important role of community activists and human rights defenders in that regard;
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 d (new) 23d. Recalls with concern that the EU and its Member States must continue to consider the situation, and protect the rights, dignity and social inclusion of indigenous peoples in Europe, including the Sami people, and recognises the important role of community activists and human rights defenders in that regard;
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24. Calls on the EU to increase the degree of ambition and endowment of its specific programmes of support to indigenous peoples
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24. Calls on the EU to increase the degree of ambition and endowment of its programmes of support to indigenous peoples and to multiply and strengthen the projects under the EIDHR and the DCI aimed at empowering them and the organizations that defend their rights, as well as the participation of the EU in the international forums where matters relevant to their lives are discussed;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24. Calls on the EU to inc
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 a (new) 24a. Calls on EU Delegations to monitor closely the situation of indigenous peoples and to engage in a continuous dialogue with them, both at national and regional levels; insist that the Human Rights focal-points in relevant EU Delegations be made explicitly responsible also for issues related to indigenous peoples and that the staff in these EU Delegations receive regular training on the rights of indigenous peoples;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 a (new) 24a. Exhorts the EU to deepen, expand and strengthen the objectives, priorities and actions concerning indigenous peoples contained in the Strategic Framework and Action Plan for Democracy and Human Rights, and asks for the mandate of the Special Representative on Human Rights to be modulated and empowered to give greater visibility to issues of indigenous peoples rights and their advocates;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution 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, and a consequential loss of distinct cultural heritage both tangible and untangible;
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 b (new) 24b. Encourages its Delegations, Committees and individual Members to enhance their efforts to address the issues related to the rights of indigenous peoples, including through regular meetings with indigenous communities and human rights defenders when visiting the relevant countries; calls for the establishment of a Standing Rapporteur for Indigenous Peoples to be appointed in the European Parliament;
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 b (new) 24b. Calls on the EU and its Member States to engage in dialogue and cooperate with the indigenous peoples and local communities in the Arctic in order to guarantee that their positions and their rights are respected within the framework of EU development policies likely to affect that region;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution 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
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution 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
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) Ca. Whereas the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples recognises indigenous peoples’ collective and individual rights, in particular their rights to their lands, their possessions, their natural resources, their territories, their culture, their identity and their language, to employment, health and education, and to determine freely their political status and economic development;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution 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; whereas, according to the UN, indigenous peoples are facing greater violations of their rights than was the case 10 years ago;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas the collective and individual rights of indigenous peoples continue to be violated in various regions of the world by state and non-state actors, 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;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution 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
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution 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,
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 13 a (new) Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution 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 31 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) Da. whereas states are ultimately responsible for guaranteeing the security, safety, and rights of indigenous peoples, as well as of indigenous environmental human rights defenders;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D b (new) Db. whereas human rights defenders are central and crucial agents of sustainable development, especially in building up societal resilience, and are key actors in inclusive democratic governance; whereas indigenous environmental human rights defenders work towards securing not only the rights of their peoples but also the environmental sustainability and natural heritage of all of humanity;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D c (new) Dc. whereas indigenous human rights defenders and activists empower and enable their communities to participate in the political processes that affect them, and to democratically and peacefully raise their voices in their respective countries and towards the international community; whereas indigenous human rights defenders often also work towards the social inclusion and economic empowerment of their communities;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D d (new) Dd. whereas women and LGBTI indigenous human rights defenders often face specific gender-based threats and obstacles, which must be understood from an intersectional perspective;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas indigenous peoples face alarming poverty, disease and illiteracy rates, insufficient access to health care, education, civil rights, including political participation and representation; whereas there is a lack of awareness and understanding for indigenous peoples, and their cultures, languages, beliefs and symbols; whereas
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas indigenous peoples face alarming poverty, disease and illiteracy rates, insufficient access to health care, education, civil rights, including political participation and representation; whereas
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas indigenous peoples face alarming poverty, disease and illiteracy rates, insufficient access to health care, education, civil rights, including political participation and representation; whereas there is a lack of awareness and understanding for indigenous peoples, and their cultures, languages, beliefs and symbols; whereas they face on-going disrespect and often find themselves seriously threatened; whereas indigenous communities, particularly indigenous youth, have higher rates of substance abuse and suicide;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas indigenous peoples face alarming poverty, disease and illiteracy rates, insufficient access to safe clean water and sanitation, health care, education, employment, civil rights, including political participation and representation; whereas there is a lack of awareness and understanding for indigenous peoples, and their cultures, histories, languages, beliefs and symbols; whereas they face on-going disrespect and discrimination, and often find themselves seriously threatened;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) Ea. whereas women in indigenous communities are particularly marginalized by a lack of access to health, social services and economic opportunities; whereas indigenous women are discriminated due to their gender, ethnicity and socio-economic backgrounds leading to higher mortality rates; whereas indigenous communities are faced with violence women experience distinct gender-based violence and femicide;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 25 a (new) - having regard to the human rights provisions included in the Cotonou Agreement,
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) Ea. whereas indigenous languages around the world continue disappearing at an alarming rate, although languages are basic component of human rights and fundamental freedoms and are essential to the realization of sustainable development; furthermore, intergenerational transmission of indigenous knowledge is vital to addressing global environmental challenges;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) Ea. whereas indigenous peoples are vulnerable to exploitation, marginalization, oppression, forced assimilation, and genocide by nation states formed from colonizing populations or by politically dominant;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas increasing demand and growing competition over natural resources
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution 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, constitute
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas many indigenous peoples continue to be victims of murder, extrajudicial executions, mutilation, torture, rape, arbitrary detentions, a high suicide rate, physical assault, harassment, mass population displacement – particularly in South America, Africa and South-East Asia – and intimidation for defending the right to their ancestral territories and its natural resources, including the access to water and food, as well as to their spiritual sites and sacred burial grounds;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G a (new) Ga. whereas some States do not recognise the legitimacy of indigenous people’s representatives or their ability to pronounce themselves on matters relevant to their lives; whereas the governments of some countries lack the will, the political capacity or the resources to protect traditional lands and indigenous people’s rights and those of people working in rural areas; whereas in many cases the governmental authorities themselves are responsible for issuing land titles to foreign investors and for authorising agribusiness expansion, development, industrialization and infrastructure projects without prior community consultation and consent, and often against their duty to secure protected areas;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G a (new) Ga. whereas in 2017, Latin America was the region of the world with the largest number of human rights defenders and that 67% of crimes were committed against defenders who opposed extractive projects or who defended the right to land and natural resources of indigenous peoples;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G b (new) Gb. whereas remote indigenous communities or those living in voluntary isolation lack the capacity, for that very reason, to advocate for their own rights, therefore being especially unprotected against the violation of those rights;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas nowadays there is a trend towards the militari
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H.
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 28 a (new) - having regard to the decision of the European Parliament to nominate Aura Lolita Chavez Ixcaquic to the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 2017, as the first ever indigenous human rights defender to be nominated to the Prize,
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H a (new) Ha. whereas indigenous women are victims of violence and of dual discrimination, on grounds of both their culture and their gender; whereas, according to the UN, at least one indigenous woman in three is raped at some point in her life; whereas rates of maternal mortality, teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS, among indigenous populations are higher than the average; whereas indigenous women are particularly affected by growing inequality in various forms, the incidence of which is greater on women than on men because, inter alia, they do the most dangerous and poorly paid types of work;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H a (new) Ha. whereas illicit drug trafficking disproportionately affects indigenous communities as demand for drugs continues to rise and illicit drug producers increasingly push indigenous communities from their traditional land; whereas indigenous people are often physically or economically forced to participate in the drug trade, particularly in transport operations; whereas armed conflicts increase the militarization of indigenous lands and lead to human rights abuses and excess force on indigenous communities;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H a (new) Ha. whereas civil conflicts in some countries are related to land rights and are the cause of forced displacements of indigenous and local communities, thus opening the door to land grabbing and landholding concentration;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H b (new) Hb. whereas, globally, more than 100 indigenous peoples have decided to refuse contact with the outside world; whereas these communities are the most vulnerable on the planet, their existence being imperilled in particular by oil prospecting, deforestation and drug trafficking and the infrastructure associated with those activities;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H b (new) Hb. whereas poorly regulated tourism can have a negative cultural and ecological impact on these communities and in some cases it is the instigator factor for land grabbing;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas in recent years there has been a disturbing increase in homicides, attacks and other forms of violence against human rights defenders and activists in the context of the defence of the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities, environmental rights and land rights; and, although 2018 is the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, the NGO Front Line Defenders reports that 2017 saw the murder of 312 human rights defenders, 67% of them activists defending indigenous peoples’ land rights and environmental rights;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas in recent years there has been a disturbing increase in homicides, attacks and other forms of violence against human rights defenders and activists, who are key actors of sustainable development, in the context of the defence of the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities, environmental rights and land rights;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I a (new) Ia. whereas the term ‘land grabbing’ refers to any acquisition by private or public parties of rights to substantial tracts of land, whether in the form of outright ownership, achieved through the direct purchase of the land from its previous owner, or of rights of use, achieved through the conclusion of leases conferring rights in rem and concentrating land in the hands of big (public or private) landowners, to the detriment of local populations;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I a (new) Ia. whereas in some countries large numbers of indigenous populations migrated to major urban centres, where feelings of detachment and loss of cultural values ensue; whereas the inadequacy of their traditional knowledge and practices to urban contexts and to contemporary job market dynamics expose them to poverty and to new forms of exclusion and discrimination;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I a (new) Ia. whereas of the 281 human rights defenders reportedly murdered around the world in 2016, 49% were fighting for land, indigenous, and environmental rights; whereas indigenous human rights defenders often face the systemic impunity of the perpetrators of attacks against them;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 30 a (new) - having regard to the Paris Agreement of 12 December 2015 on climate change,
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I b (new) Ib. whereas, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), between 2006 and 2011, international investors negotiated to buy or lease 50-80 million hectares of farmland in developing countries; whereas two-thirds of that land is in sub- Saharan Africa; whereas, since 2008, there has been an exponential increase in land grabbing, particularly by multinational agri-food companies; whereas, in a report published in 2016, the NGO Grain estimated that, over the previous decade, there had been 491 cases, in 78 countries, of foreign investors grabbing large tracts (i.e. 500- plus hectares) of land that had been used for food production;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I c (new) Ic. whereas the structural connection between, on the one hand, land grabbing and the concentration of farmland ownership and, on the other, food insecurity, affects indigenous peoples particularly severely; whereas, according to the FAO, after 10 years in which the incidence of famine in the world has slowly declined, it is once again on the increase, with a rise in 2016 of 38 million in the number of people suffering from malnutrition worldwide, and children are particularly hard hit;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas non-binding corporate social responsibility and voluntary regulation schemes have proved insufficient to protect indigenous and local communities from the violation of their human rights, to prevent land grabbing and to ensure effective corporate accountability; whereas the lack of control and accountability mechanisms constitutes a major impediment to effective and adequate remedy;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas non-binding corporate social responsibility and voluntary regulation schemes
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas non-binding corporate social responsibility and voluntary regulation schemes
Amendment 65 #
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
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K K. whereas
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K K. whereas a great number of
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution 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 in some
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K K. whereas a
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 30 b (new) - having regard to the report of the European Parliament on EU action for sustainability of 27 June 2017,
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution 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
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K a (new) Ka. whereas most lands in developing countries are inhabited, thus exposing the investments and reputation of companies to tenure risks and significantly increasing their operating costs when land transfers occur in a context of conflict, without the prior consent of indigenous and local communities and in contempt for their rights;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K a (new) Ka. whereas the UN Special Rapporteur for HRDs, Michael Frost, has singled out Latin America as a region of concern, where “government and corporate actors are involved in the murders of environmental human rights defenders”;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution 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
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L L.
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution 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
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution 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 77 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L a (new) La. whereas international financial institutions(IFIs) have a central role to play in ensuring that projects they fund do not entail or contribute to the violation of the human and environmental rights of indigenous peoples; whereas multinational corporations carry the responsibility to ensure that their operations and/or their supply chains are not implicated inhuman and environmental rights violations, and specifically the rights of indigenous peoples;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L a (new) La. whereas the UE is the largest Development Aid provider in the world, notably in the case of Africa; whereas the EEAS and the Commission must carry out exhaustive controls of the funds third- country receptors use, by putting respect for human rights at the fore-front of its aid granting policy;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L b (new) Lb. whereas indigenous peoples within Europe still suffer from marginalisation, discrimination, and social exclusion, which must be combated and redressed using a rights-based approach;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 30 c (new) - having regard to the communication of the European Commission "Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment: Transforming the Lives of Girls and Women through EU External Relations 2016-2020" of 21 September 2015,
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution 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;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution 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 82 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Calls on all States, including the EU and its Member States, to follow all the necessary steps to effectively comply with the provisions contained in ILO Convention 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples and recalls that all ratifying States are obliged to develop coordinated and systematic action to protect indigenous peoples’ rights;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Appeals to all states that have not yet ratified ILO Convention No 169 1 c on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, and in particular to the EU and its Member States, to do so as quickly as possible, and calls on the EU to make every effort to support its ratification and implementation in all partner countries; _________________ 1c List of countries that have not ratified ILO Convention No 169: http://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/f?p=N ORMLEXPUB:11310:0::NO:11310:P113 10_INSTRUMENT_ID:312314:NO
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Appeals to all states that have not yet ratified ILO Convention No 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, and in particular to the EU Member States, to do so as quickly as possible, and calls on the EU to
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Recognises some achievements in the recognition of the rights of indigenous peoples and an increasing awareness by civil society regarding their situation and recognises the EU’s contribution in this regard; warns, however, of a still very timid presence of this issue in EU policies, such as in the negotiation of trade and cooperation agreements;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls on the EU and its Member States to create conditions for the fulfilment of the objectives set out in the United Nations Declaration on the rights of Indigenous Peoples and to encourage its international partners to adopt and implement it fully;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the EU Member States and
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 30 d (new) - having to the Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly 64/292 of 3 August 2010 on "The human right to water and sanitation",
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls on all states, including the EU and its Member States, to legally recognise the
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls on all states, including the EU and its Member States, to legally recognise the traditional lands and water of indigenous people, and the right of indigenous people to self-determination;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls on all states, including the EU and its Member States, to
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Calls on all states, including the EU and its Member States, to adopt or sign up to strategies for the reconstruction of conflict areas in order to promote and safeguard the rights of indigenous people;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution 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 96 #
Motion for a resolution 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
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Calls on all states, including the EU and the Member States, to include indigenous peoples and rural communities in the
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Calls on all states, including the European Union and its Member States, to recognise indigenous peoples as equal partners in all deliberations on issues that could affect them; in this regard, calls for the establishment of mechanisms at EU level for consultation and participation of indigenous peoples, notably the creation of a high level forum, with a mandate to engage in policy dialogue and monitor the implementation of EU policy, commitments and action plan on indigenous peoples; stresses that this forum should ensure a regional and gender balance as well as the participation of representatives from indigenous persons with disabilities and youth;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Calls on all states, including the European Union and its Member States, to recognise indigenous peoples as equal partners in all deliberations on issues that could affect them, and to create conditions so that their arguments and opinions can be respectfully heard in the regional and global discussion forums;
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Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph –1 (new) -1. Notes that the increase of large- scale land acquisitions, driven mainly by agribusiness, the forestry, biofuels and tourism industries, has impacted negatively on indigenous people, which are forced away from their lands;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Recalls the EU’s commitment to follow a Rights-Based Approach (RBA) to development, which includes the respect of indigenous peoples’ rights as defined in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), and singles out the principles of accountability and participation, non- discrimination; strongly encourages the EU to continue its work on operationalising this Rights Based Approach in all development activities and to set up a Task Force with Member States for this purpose; calls for an update of the respective implementation plan with clear timelines and indicators to measure progress;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new) 1c. Recalls Article 208 TFEU and the principle of Policy Coherence of Development, notes with concern that the EU energy, agriculture, trade and investment policies have proven to be drivers of landgrabbing in third countries as large-scale land acquisitions negatively impact indigenous peoples’ access to land; deplores that the ongoing revision of the Renewable Energy Directive has so far failed to introduce social and sustainability criteria taking into account risks of land grabbing; recalls that the Directive should be consistent with international tenure right standards;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Deplores the allegations that some ODA projects, specially blending ones, 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;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion 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 17 #
Draft opinion 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; calls on the EU Delegations to reinforce the dialogue with indigenous peoples on the ground further in order to identify and prevent human rights violations;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Urges the European Commission and the Member States to establish, as an immediate step, an effective administrative complaint mechanism for victims of human rights violations and other harmful impacts induced by ODA- funded activities to initiate investigation and reconciliation processes; this mechanism shall have standardized procedures, be of administrative nature, thus be complementary to judicial mechanisms, and EU Delegations could act as entry points;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph –1 a (new) -1a. Reiterates that indigenous people around the world suffer disproportionally from violations of human rights, from crime, health problems, and high rates of poverty as they comprise 15 percent of those living in poverty while they account for 5 per cent of the world’s population only;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion 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 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Stresses the high relevance of the Sustainable Development Goals with regard to indigenous peoples, notably SDG 2 (zero hunger), 4.5 (access to education) and 5 (gender equality);
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Stresses the need to adopt specific measures to address conflict timber, to stem the flow of conversion timber, and to shift investment away from forest- damaging activities resulting in displacement of local and indigenous communities; calls on the EU to adopt additional measures to support the protection and restoration of forest ecosystems and their communities, and eliminate deforestation from the EU’s supply chains, as part of a new EU Action Plan on deforestation, forest degradation and respect for forest communities tenure rights;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion 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 24 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Calls on development partners to carry out thorough assessments before the usage of land declared as “empty”, “idle” or “unused” is to be changed as this can threaten indigenous peoples’ livelihoods and their access to land, forests or natural resources; recalls that indigenous peoples should not be displaced from their lands or territories and if relocation is deemed necessary, the affected people should receive just, fair and equitable compensation; singles out the specific case of nomadic pastoralist people;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 c (new) 2c. Recalls that 80% of forests worldwide constitutes traditional lands and territories of indigenous peoples; stresses the vital role of indigenous people for sustainable management of natural resources and biodiversity conservation; recalls that UNFCCC calls upon its state parties to respect the knowledge and rights of indigenous peoples as safeguards in implementing REDD+; urges partner countries to adopt measures to effectively engage indigenous peoples in climate change adaptation and mitigation measures;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Urges partner countries to recognise and protect indigenous peoples’ rights to customary ownership and control of their lands and natural resources as set out in the UNDRIP and ILO Convention 169; stresses, in particular, the need to respect and promote the ancestral rights of indigenous peoples, derived from their political, economic and social structures and their culture, spiritual traditions, history and ways of thinking, in particular their rights to their land; notes, in particular, that it is the role of the governments concerned to work with indigenous peoples to develop coordinated and well-designed measures to protect the rights of these peoples and to ensure respect for their integrity; calls for the EU to support partner countries in this and in applying the principle of free, prior and informed consent to large-scale land acquisitions;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Urges partner countries to recognise and protect indigenous peoples’ rights to customary ownership and control of their lands and natural resources as set out in the UNDRIP and ILO Convention 169; calls, in addition, on partner countries to improve their land ownership legislation by recognising the universal right of women to have access to land as full owners; calls for the EU to support partner countries in this and in applying the principle of free, prior and informed consent to large-scale land acquisitions;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Urges partner countries to recognise and protect
Amendment 3 #
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Urges partner countries to recognise and protect indigenous peoples’ rights to customary ownership and control of their lands and natural resources as set out in the UNDRIP and ILO Convention 169; calls for the EU Member States to support partner countries in this and in applying the principle of free, prior and informed consent to large-scale land acquisitions;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Urges partner countries to recognise and protect indigenous peoples’ rights to customary ownership and control of their lands and natural resources as set out in the UNDRIP and ILO Convention 169; calls for the EU to actively support partner countries in this and in applying the principle of free, prior and informed consent to large-scale land acquisitions;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Notes that between 200 and 500 million people worldwide practise pastoralism and that pastoralism is central to livelihood strategies in the drylands and mountainous regions of East Africa; stresses the need to foster sustainable pastoralism to reach the SDGs; encourages the EU and its Member States to support the African Governance Architecture (AGA) and in particular the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights, in order to implement the African Union Policy Framework on Pastoralism in Africa and, more broadly, to recognise pastoralists’ and indigenous peoples’ rights related to communal ownership of ancestral land, the right to dispose freely of natural resources and their rights to culture and religion;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion 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 34 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Deplores the lack of opportunities for indigenous peoples to participate in decision-making; calls on the EU to actively support an enhanced participatory process in its partner countries;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Reaffirms the urgency to move beyond the current impasse in relation to land demarcation. Reiterates the need to create a public register of indigenous lands occupied or involved in European corporations´ interests.
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Underlines that particular attention should be given to empowering indigenous women, in particular by strengthening their equal access to productive resources and agricultural inputs;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion 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 39 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 c (new) 3c. Highlights the link between the right to food and land rights for indigenous peoples; points out that, according to the United Nations report on the State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples (1), the promotion of new technologies such as improved seeds, chemical fertilizers and pesticides, the introduction of cash-crop cultivation and large plantation schemes have caused environmental degradation and destroyed ecosystems, affecting many indigenous communities to the point of forcing them to resettle elsewhere; [1] http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/docu ments/SOWIP/press%20package/sowip- press-package-en.pdf
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Recalls Article 208 TFEU, Agenda 2030 and welcomes the fact that the EU
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Stresses that bilateral investment agreements
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Stresses that bilateral investment agreements often fail to recognise indigenous peoples’ land rights; recalls that international investment law has to
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Stresses that bilateral investment agreements fail to recognise indigenous peoples’ land rights; recalls that international investment law has to respect international human rights law; calls for the suspension of those BITs which threaten human rights; calls on development finance institutions to strengthen their human rights safeguards;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Stresses that bilateral investment agreements fail to recognise indigenous peoples’ land rights; recalls that international investment law has to respect international human rights law, particularly where it concerns the rights of indigenous peoples; calls on development finance institutions to strengthen their human rights safeguards;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Stresses that bilateral investment agreements fail to recognise indigenous peoples’ land rights; recalls that international investment law has to respect international human rights law; calls on development finance institutions to strengthen their human rights safeguards, since investment and trade agreements must under no circumstances have a negative impact on indigenous peoples;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Urges the EU to ensure that of its all investment and trade agreements include provisions for mandatory and independent ex-ante and ex-post human rights impact assessments, due diligence requirements and effective accountability mechanisms; stresses the need to develop databases to systematically record and disclose land deals in third countries involving EU actors in order to ensure more transparency and, ultimately, more accountability;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Stresses the need to recognise the political and social rights of indigenous peoples, including the right to vote and to stand for election and the effectiveness of their freedom of expression; calls on partner countries to commit themselves to phasing out all the exclusion factors that adversely affect the lives of those indigenous peoples;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion 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 48 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Asks the commission to set up an administrative complaint mechanism, which would allow local populations, including indigenous peoples, to report cases of breach of human rights in the implementation of its development policies;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Urges partner countries to recognise and protect indigenous´ people’s rights to customary ownership and control of their lands and natural resources as set out in the UNDRIP and ILO Convention 169:calls for the EU to continue to contribute to the prevention of land grabbing by supporting partner countries in applying at national level the principle of free, prior and informed consent to large-scale land acquisitions; as well as the UN Voluntary Guidelines
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Recalls
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5.
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Welcomes the
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Welcomes the fact that the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion 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
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion 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 55 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Underlines in this regard that an increase in land concentration often leads to an increase in human rights violations, including through displacement; underlines also that the appropriation of land leads to the appropriation of resources, such as water use rights, and thus poses a twofold threat to indigenous peoples;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Welcomes that the European Council made the protection of indigenous people´s rights a priority, as laid out in the Council Conclusions of May 2017;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6.
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls for the EU to take
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls for
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Recalls Article 208 TFEU, Agenda 2030 and the fact that the EU is bound by a rights-based approach to development, particularly the rights of societies and peoples from third countries which receive support under co-development programmes;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion 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
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion 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 sanction mechanisms
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Regrets the serious shortcomings of the UN “Protect, Respect, Remedy” framework and the Guiding Principles on business and human rights with regard to both indigenous peoples’ rights and land rights; calls on the EU to engage constructively in the work of the UN Human Rights Council on an international legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises; while this process is ongoing encourages such corporations to recognise the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in codes of business conduct or other voluntary frameworks;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Calls the EU partners in the private and public sector to provide complete and accessible information on human rights violations that have been frequently associated with and documented in relation to extractive industries or certain development projects (such as increased cases of sexual violence against indigenous women and children, including those with disabilities, extra-judicial killings, land degradation and pollution of water sources and land) as well as information on processes of relocation and characteristics of alternative resettlements;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Criticises the fact that unsustainable imports from third countries, such as soya and palm oil, which usually come from monocultures, often result in the clearing of forests, thereby destroying habitats and displacing indigenous peoples living there; calls in this connection for the introduction of sustainability criteria for the import of vegetable protein;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Warmly welcomes the work initiated in the preparation of a binding UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights which it is believed will enhance social corporate responsibility and curve impunity; regrets any obstructive behaviour in relation to this process, and calls for the EU and its Member States to engage constructively in these negotiations;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Insists that the EU has to ensure the coherence and consistence of all its policies when acting in developing countries; further calls on the EU to evaluate systemically the impact of its development, agricultural, trade and energy policies on the livelihoods of the most vulnerable people;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion 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 68 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 b (new) 6b. Highlights the structural multiple discrimination faced by indigenous women, who are particularly affected by the lack of access to education and jobs and to medical and social services; indigenous women are therefore more likely to be victims of trafficking and violence; the EU must therefore as a matter of urgency promote their right to a non-violent and equal life, especially with regard to land ownership rights and entitlements;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion 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 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Recalls Article 21 TEU, Article 208 TFEU, Agenda 2030 and the fact that the EU is bound by a rights-based approach to development;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 b (new) 6b. Stresses that European Union and Member States have to make serious commitments to including indigenous children with disabilities in all policies, actions and programmes related to international cooperation and external relations;
Amendment 71 #
6c. Calls on the European Commission to launch the EU Action Plan on Responsible Business Conduct, the Commission’s intention having been welcomed by the Council of the European Union in its Conclusions of June 2016. This action plan should address the implementation of the UN guiding principles on business and human rights, including with regard to due diligence and access to remedy, and provide an overall policy framework;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 c (new) 6c. Stresses that our consumption patterns tie down substantial resources from third countries; emphasises that European resource use worldwide is affecting indigenous peoples and underlines the responsibility that results from this situation;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion 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 74 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 d (new) 6d. Notes that grazing rights and common pastures, for example, are traditional land-use rights based on common law and not on vested ownership rights; emphasises nonetheless the essential importance of protecting these customary rights for indigenous peoples;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 d (new) 6d. Emphasizes that a full and thorough protection must be put in place for indigenous leaders and human rights defenders who speak out against the injustices that their peoples are facing daily, putting themselves at risk for their communities.
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion 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 77 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 e (new) 6e. Points out that we in the EU still have much to learn about the sustainable use, for example of forests, from the indigenous peoples, who, moreover, scarcely contribute to climate change because of their way of life, but are particularly affected by it, because of drought or desertification, for example; an impact that affects women in particular;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 e (new) 6e. Expresses deep concern with the structural and direct violence against indigenous peoples. From racism, discrimination and hate speech to threats, rapes and killings, indigenous peoples are exposed to gross human rights violations.
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 f (new) 6f. Calls on the EU to support the protection and promotion of indigenous rights. In this regard, the European Parliament, the European Commission and the European External Action Service should continue to play an instrumental role in reminding the governments to fully support its international obligations concerning indigenous rights, notably in Colombia and Brazil.
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Recalls that the Agenda 2030 addresses these development concerns of indigenous peoples and underlines that a stepped up effort for its implementation is needed; stresses the need to strengthen the Indigenous Peoples Major Group for Sustainable Development (IPMG) as the global mechanism for coordination and concerted efforts to advance the rights and development priorities of indigenous peoples; calls on the European Commission to better liaise with and include the IMPG in its Multi- Stakeholder Platform on SDGs;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 f (new) Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 g (new) 6g. Urges the EU to make sure that the Free, Prior and Informed Consent of people with disabilities living in indigenous communities is taken into account in any EU development project concerning indigenous people, by ensuring information and documentation about any project sponsored or funded by the EU on indigenous territories is accessible to Indigenous Persons with Disabilities;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) source: 619.081
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60 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Recital - A a (new) -Aa. whereas indigenous women face a complex system of mutually reinforcing human rights abuses that derive from intersecting forms of vulnerability, including discrimination based on gender, class, ethnic origins, violations of rights of self-determination and control of resources;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Recital - A h (new) -Ah. whereas even though indigenous female human rights defenders are vital for the protection of women in indigenous communities, their activities have been criminalised and they have been object to different forms of violence, including harassment, rape and murder;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Calls on all states to legally recognise the rights of indigenous peoples to their ancestral territories; stresses the special connection between indigenous women and their ancestral territories, especially in relation to traditional practices for the sustainable management of natural resources, the model of community support and resilience, which hold lessons for other communities that cannot be lost; expresses its deep concern about the consequences of land grabbing and resource extraction on indigenous communities, particularly on indigenous women, leading to situations of poverty, exclusion, violations of human rights including gender-based violence, abuses and exploitation;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Calls on all states to
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Having regard to the increase in private forms of compensation through which private undertakings offer women who are victims of violence financial compensation in return for signing an agreement not to sue the undertaking; whereas States bear the primary responsibility for ensuring compliance with international commitments with respect to indigenous peoples’ rights and must therefore be primarily responsible for avoiding infringements and promoting truth, justice and reparations for the victims;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Whereas the violations of the right to self-determination perpetuated by neo- colonial power structures and state practices have a negative impact on indigenous peoples, particularly women and girls;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new) 1c. Having regard to the direct link between collective rights and individual rights of indigenous women, given that human rights violations at an individual level have a negative impact on collective efforts to assert the rights of indigenous peoples as a group;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 d (new) 1d. Whereas the scant protection of indigenous peoples’ land and land- ownership rights exposes indigenous women to forced displacement, exploitation and trafficking in human beings, which makes it easier for governments to impose destructive projects in their territories without obtaining prior consent following a genuine process of consultation of the indigenous peoples;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 e (new) 1e. Whereas forcible land grabbing by private companies is usually accompanied by the imposition of private security or military forces, leading inter alia to an increase in direct and indirect violence indigenous peoples’ territories, directly affecting communities and, in particular, social leaders and women;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Recital - A a (new) -Aa. whereas land grabbing is a complex issue which requires a comprehensive international solution; whereas the protection of indigenous women and girls should be notably emphasised;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 f (new) 1f. Having regard to the historical violations of the sexual and reproductive rights of indigenous women, including forced sterilisation and forced marriages as part of cultural assimilation policies;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 g (new) 1g. Whereas the increasing liberalisation and deregulation of the market has led to direct foreign investment in indigenous peoples’ territories without their prior consent or a genuine process of consultation, resulting in violations of the human rights of indigenous women; whereas development cannot be measured on the basis of growth indicators, but should primarily take account of the reduction of poverty and inequality;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 h (new) 1h. Calls on the EU to engage in constructive negotiations on a United Nations treaty on transnational corporations guaranteeing respect for the human rights of indigenous peoples, and of women and girls in particular;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Underlines the direct impact that climate change has on indigenous women, forcing them to abandon their traditional practices or to be displaced, with the consequent risk of experiencing violence, abuse and exploitation; calls on all states and international organisations to actively include indigenous women in the design and implementation of climate mitigation and adaptation policies;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Underlines the direct impact that climate change has on indigenous
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Underlines the direct impact that climate change has on indigenous women, forcing them to abandon their traditional practices or to be displaced;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Stresses that women are not only victims but also powerful agents of change who can formulate and execute efficient climate strategies and/or solutions in relation to adaptation and mitigation and can build climate resilience as a product of their diverse areas of experience and practical knowledge; asks the Commission and the Member States, therefore, in their foreign policy, to support women as major players in the fight against climate change;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Notes with concern that women with children and girls are the most vulnerable groups in climate-change- related population movements, where they are exposed to violations of their fundamental rights; asks the Commission, therefore, to set up an expert group to draft a definition on the basis of which an international legal framework can be established for persons displaced through the effects of climate change; advocates too that the international community address the issue of climate-related migration with a view to producing a shared definition, given the current absence of agreed provision for it in international law;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 c (new) 2c. Takes note of the alarming findings of the study published by the UN in 2010 indicating that the incidence of violence and rape affecting women members of indigenous populations is higher than that for the female population globally; calls, therefore, on the Member States and the EU to condemn unequivocally the use of violence, including sexual violence, against indigenous women; considers that special attention should be given to women and girls who are victims of violence, ensuring that they have access to emergency medical and psychological support;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Recital - A b (new) -Ab. whereas it has been estimated that one in three indigenous women are raped during their lifetime; whereas indigenous women are more likely to experience different forms of sexual violence and have been victims of harassment, extortion and rape also by state officials and in the context of business activities, particularly of extractive industries, on indigenous lands; whereas there is significant underreporting of these crimes;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 d (new) 2d. Calls therefore on the Commission, in the context of its foreign policy, to work together with civil society and human rights organisations to ensure that the human rights of indigenous peoples in reception centres are upheld, particularly in respect of vulnerable women and girls;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 e (new) 2e. Notes, too, the many risks that indigenous populations face, including from poverty, a poor level of education and problems of access to health care; calls on all states to commit themselves to ensuring that indigenous peoples and particularly girls and women have proper access to health and education, to promoting intercultural public policies, to incorporating indigenous languages and cultures into their school programmes and to developing initiatives to raise awareness in civil society of the rights of indigenous peoples, in order to combat stereotyping;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Calls on all states to ensure the free, informed and prior consent of indigenous peoples to all projects that may affect them, and to ensure that the rights of indigenous peoples, including their right to self-determination and their land rights, are respected and protected throughout the process; calls
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Calls on all states to ensure the free, informed and prior consent of indigenous peoples to all projects that may affect them, and to ensure that the rights of indigenous peoples, including land-related rights, are respected and protected throughout the process; calls for the European Union to ensure that this consent is required for all European companies who pursue activities
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Calls on all
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls for the withdrawal of private security and military forces deployed in the territories of indigenous peoples in violation of their rights;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on all states to ensure that indigenous peoples, in particular women, have access to judicial mechanisms in cases of corporate violations of their rights, and that private forms of remedy that do not ensure effective access to justice are not legitimised; calls on all states to recruit more women as part of their judicial systems in order to break the patriarchal system that is generally present in those structures; stresses the need to put in place the necessary mechanisms to avoid that indigenous women are treated in a discriminatory way, including appropriate interpretation services and legal assistance;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on all
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Calls on the States to provide for adequate regulation that would hold the community leaders accountable for their decisions and actions over land governance involving public, state and community lands and to encourage change of legal and customary practices that discriminate against women in relation to land ownership and inheritance;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Recital - A b (new) -Ab. whereas land grabbing is not necessarily a result of foreign investments but the grabs may be conducted by governments and local communities;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Calls on all states to ensure that indigenous women and girls enjoy the full protection and guarantees against all forms of violence, including sexual and gender-based violence, gender-based killings, early and forced marriages, female genital mutilation and other harmful practices;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls for EU legislation introducing due diligence obligations based on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the OECD Due Diligence Guidelines to ensure respect for human rights, including indigenous women’s rights, and adequate social and environmental standards; calls for binding and enforceable provisions on human, labour and environmental rights in EU trade agreements that put a specific emphasis on the rights of indigenous peoples, particularly women;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Recommends that greater prominence be given to this issue in the EU’s foreign policy, including in its human rights dialogues with third countries and in EU policy documents as well as in trade, cooperation and development agreements negotiated or concluded with other countries; calls, therefore, on the Commission to take steps to ensure that the environmental and social standards contained in the sustainable development chapters of the free-trade agreements currently in negotiation are binding, so that penalties can be imposed if a third country does not comply with them.
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Calls on all states, including the EU and its Member States, to ensure the access to high quality health services and rights, particularly sexual and reproductive health services and rights, for indigenous women and girls;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Calls on all states to ensure the preservation of indigenous peoples´ cultural diversity by developing in collaboration with indigenous peoples, particularly women, materials for education systems and capacity building programmes to increase awareness about indigenous peoples´ culture, traditions, languages and rights; calls on all states to include this type of materials and capacity building programmes as part of the training of public officials, including police, judiciary and health personnel;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new) 5c. Calls on all states to take the necessary measures to ensure that state authorities refrain from making public statements or declarations that stigmatise and undermine the legitimate role played by indigenous women in protecting their territory in the context of land grabbing and resource extraction, and encourages public recognition of the important role they play in democratic societies;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 d (new) 5d. Calls on all states, including the EU and its Member States, to collect gender-disaggregated data on the situation of indigenous women, including with regards to recognition and access to land rights, violence against women and food security;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. C
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Recital - A c (new) -Ac. whereas indigenous women face barriers to sexual and reproductive health and rights, including lack of sexual and reproductive health advice, lack of access to facilities and supplies and legislation banning abortion even in cases of rape, leading to high levels of maternity mortality, teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Commission and the EEAS to ensure that adequate funding is allocated for the support of indigenous human rights defenders, in particular women, notably under the EIDHR
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Commission and the EEAS to
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Calls on the Commission to enhance reporting and monitoring on large-scale land acquisitions involving European investors in order to evaluate in a timely manner the risk for indigenous people and especially women;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Calls on the COM and EEAS to design and implement programmes that address the specific and collective rights of indigenous peoples, including their right to non- discrimination as well as land-related rights;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Encourages the Commission and the EEAS to improve the education of indigenous women and girls, and to promote their access to sexual and reproductive health services in EU development cooperation programmes;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 b (new) 6b. Calls on the European Union to strengthen its EU Land Policy Guidelines, the protection of human rights in international agreements and treaties and to promote its values regarding the protection of women and girls, especially women and girls in rural areas that are generally more vulnerable when faced with land changes and tend to have less access and rights to land;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 c (new) 6c. Calls on the European Union to support developing countries in decision- making on the framework for investments while promoting the inclusion of all stakeholders in this process, especially women and indigenous women;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 d (new) 6d. Calls on the States and the EU to promote and recommend better data collection regarding indigenous people segregated by sex, keeping in mind the vulnerability and the position of women and girls;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 e (new) 6e. Calls on all States to promote further investments and economic cooperation between countries as economic development brings prosperity and better protection of human rights, opens up many possibilities and broadens business opportunities for women;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 f (new) 6f. Calls on the States to invest in research to close the gap in knowledge on the impact of land grabs on women and deeper analysis of the sex implications of the phenomenon which would lead to enforceable guidelines to govern land transactions;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Recital - A d (new) -Ad. whereas indigenous women face widespread impunity regarding the violations of their rights, especially due to the denial of their right to remedy, the lack of monitoring mechanisms and gender-disaggregated data;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 g (new) 6g. Stresses that foreign investments made by companies may bring economic and technological progress, employment and infrastructure development and give women an opportunity to become self- efficient by boosting employment; underlines that increasing investment activities in developing countries is an important step towards boosting national and regional economies;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Recital - A e (new) -Ae. whereas indigenous peoples´ lands and territories tend to be also areas of high biological diversity and therefore need to be subject to special protection;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Recital - A f (new) -Af. whereas the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples provides that indigenous peoples need to be consulted and their free, informed and prior consent given to any measure affecting their lands and territories; whereas the implementation of this principle requires full participation of indigenous women in these processes;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Recital - A g (new) -Ag. whereas the establishment of big infrastructure projects without the free, informed and prior consent of indigenous peoples has led to systematic violations of indigenous land rights and self- determination which have disproportionately affected indigenous women;
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