10 Amendments of Emmanouil KEFALOGIANNIS related to 2017/2206(INI)
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas human rights treaties recognise the right of indigenous peoples to their ancestral lands and resources and provide that states must consult indigenous peoples in good faith in order to obtain their free, prior and informed consent pertaining to projects that can have a negativedisrupting impact on their traditional ways of life or that can lead to the displacement of their populations;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
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, illegalforced expropriation of their traditional domains or deprivation of access to their resources and livelihoods;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas non-binding corporate social responsibility and voluntary regulation schemes have proved insufficientrequire additional efforts in order to protect indigenous and local communities from the violation of their human rights, to prevent land grabbing and to ensure effective corporate accountability;
Amendment 70 #
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 violadisruptions of the rightstraditional ways of living of indigenous and local communities; whereas in many cases, given the multiple foreign ramifications of those actors, it can prove difficult to trace their roots directly to the EU and its Member States;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
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 make every effort to supportpromote its ratification and implementation inby all partner countries;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Urges the EU and its Member States to redouble their efforts in order tocontinue working for ensureing the physical integrity and the legal assistance of indigenous, environmental and land rights defenders;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Invites the Commission to establish a register of EU-based companies that are involved in land grabbing operations in foreign countries, in order to ensure public scrutiny and proactive monitoring of their activity;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the EU to setlead a global initiative for setting up a grievance mechanism whereby indigenous and local communities can lodge complaints regarding violations and abuses of their rights resulting from EU-based business activities or EU development or investment projects, regardless of the country where the violations and abuses occurred, in order to ensure that the victims have effective access to justice, as well as to technical and legal assistance; calls on the EU and the Member States to engage in the negotiations to adopt a legally binding international human rights instrument for transnational corporations and other companies;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Invites the EU to urge its partner states to draw up inclusive social policies for indigenous peoples in anthe urban environment, in order to reduce the effects of uprooting and of the mismatch between their traditional capabilities and contemporary metropolitan dynamics;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on all states to commit themselves to ensuring that indigenous peoples have genuine access to health and education, 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;