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3 Amendments of Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY related to 2016/2219(INI)

Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Stresses that continuing to demand the payment of impoverished countries' external debt makes it to a large degree impossible for their governments to develop the public policies needed to guarantee that human rights are fulfilled;
2016/10/13
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Considers it regrettable that a regulatory framework on the way corporations comply with human rights and obligations with respect to social and environmental standards is still lacking, which allow certain States and companies to circumvent them with impunity; calls the EU to set-up of a mandatory and enforceable regulatory framework to govern the way corporations comply with human rights and obligations with respect to social and environmental standards; reiterates its call for the European Commission to be more committed to promoting binding and non-negotiable human rights and social and environmental clauses in the negotiation of international agreements;
2016/10/13
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Calls for the EU and Member States to engage actively in the work of the UN's Human Rights Council and of the UNEP on an international treaty to hold transnational corporations accountable for human rights abuses and violations of environmental standards;
2016/10/13
Committee: DEVE