24 Amendments of Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA related to 2017/2206(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 a (new)
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 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas traditional indigenous territories encompass approximately 22 % of the world’s land surface and are estimated to hold 80 % of the planet’s biodiversity; whereas the tropical forests inhabited by indigenous peoples and local communities contribute, at least for one quarter, to store carbon across the tropical forest biome, making them valuable in any strategy to address climate change; whereas, due to their close relationship with the land and their lifestyle, which is directly reliant on the consistency and availability of natural resources, indigenous people are the most vulnerable to the negative impact generated by climate change;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas increasing demand and growing competition over natural resources is driving a ‘global land rush’ that in several countries is putting the territories traditionally inhabited and used by indigenous peoples and local communities under unsustainableconstant 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, constitutes one of the main causes of enduring conflict over land tenure and the main cause for water and soil contamination;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
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 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas a great number of EU- based investors and companies are involved in hundreds of land acquisition operations in Africa, Asia and Latin America, which sometimes leads to violations of the rights of indigenous and local communities; whereas in many cases, given ththey have multiple foreign ramifications of those actors, it can prove, which can make it difficult to trace their roots directly to the EU and its Member Statescountries of origin;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas the obligation to protect and provide access to remedy under the European Convention on Human Rights applies both to extraterritorial activities and to domestic activities with extraterritorial impact; whereas the degree of commitment of the EU and its Member States to their extraterritorial obligations is currently very weakshould be considerably increased;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
Recital L a (new)
La. E. whereas the EU provides assistance for the promotion and protection of democracy and human rights worldwide through the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR), which is complementary to its other external assistance instruments and is mainly channelled through civil society organisations; whereas due to its mechanism protectdefenders.eu, EU provides swift assistance to Human Rights Defenders at risk, helps them meet their most urgent needs and reinforces their capacities to do their work in the medium and long term;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on all states, including the EU and the Member States, to include indigenous peoples and rural communities in their strategies for tackling climate change; notes that the lives and identities of indigenous people depend heavily on their close relationship with the land, which in case of irreparable damage left by climate change, can force them to migrate and lead to their double discrimination - as environmentally displaced people and indigenous people;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
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 guaranteeing their right to prior, free and informed consultation;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Urges the EU and its Member States to redouble their efforts in order to ensure the physical integrity and the legal assistance of indigenous, environmental and land rights defenders; , with dedicated attention to women human rights activists; stresses, in this context, the importance of the EIDHR-supported mechanism ProtectDefenders.eu and calls for its continuation and increase in its funding, so that it can timely respond to the requests of the human rights defenders at risk;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
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)
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)
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 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Remains concerned about the situation with respect to land grabbing as a result of corrupt practices by corporations, foreign investors, national and international State actors, officials and authorities; underlines that corruption enables land grabbing, often with forced evictions, by, inter alia, granting third parties tainted control of land without the consent of the people who live on that land, particularly indigenous people;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Urges the EU and its Member States to monitor and publicly reprequire disclosure and to monitort the land acquisitions involving EU-based corporations and actors or EU-funded development projects, in countries where such deals could result in the violation of human rightorder to increase the transparency and accountability of those acquisitions, instructing and capacitating EU Delegations and embassies for that purpose ;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the EU and its Member States to promote and support indigenous peoples' organisations that have a social development agenda which designs and develops legal and institutional framework for the demarcation and titling of indigenous territories; outlines that recognizing and formalizing indigenous peoples’ lands and empowering indigenous people’s authorities and community members would ensure sustainability, social accountability and would contribute to the resolve of land disputes and conflicts within the state;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the EU to set up a grievance mechanism whereby indigenous and local communities can lodge complaints regarding violations and abuses of their rights resulting from EU-based business activities or EU development or investment projects, regardless of the country where the violations and abuses occurred, in order to ensure that the victims have effective access to justice, as well as to technical and legal assistance; calls on the EU and the Member States to engage in the negotiations to adopt a legally binding international human rights instrument for transnational corporations and other companies 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 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
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 or EU development or investment projects, regardless of the country where the violations and abuses occurred, in order to ensure that the victims have effective access to justice, as well as to technical and legal assistance; calls on the EU and the Member States to engage in the negotiations to adopt a legally binding international human rights instrument for transnational corporations and other companies;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
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)
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)
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 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on all states to ensure that indigenous communities benefit from sustainable tourism revenues and are protected from the adverse impact ofthat mass tourism might bring, and welcomes examples of shared management of reserves and protected areas that allow better protection of ecosystems and control of tourism flows;
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls on the EU to ensure that all EU-funded development projects that could in any way negatively affect the livelihoods, lands andare taking place on the lands and involve resources of indigenous peoples rigorously comply with the principle of free, prior and informed consent;
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
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;