Activities of Heidi HAUTALA related to 2014/2216(INI)
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Amendments (4)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. HNotes with great concern that according to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) around 21 million men, women and children around the world are in a form of slavery; highlights the need to address human rights in a holistic and indivisible fashion by emphasising and strongly committing to economic, social and cultural rights, since without these rights there can be no development; stresses the need to tackle the root causes of poverty; highlights the obligation to respect international labour standards, in line with the fulfilment of the ILO Decent Work Agenda, and calls for the setting-up of a universal social protection floor; takes the view that social issues should have a more central place in the EU’s external relations; urges the EU to incorporateregrets, in this context, that the EU does not have a homogenous formula for a "social clause reflecting ILO core labour standards" to be inserted in all its external trade agreements;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Highlights the importance of supporting the implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the need for corporate accountability; stresses the need to adopt a legally binding international instrument on business and human rightsRegrets that a holistic approach regarding the way corporations abide by human rights globally is still lacking, which allow certain States and companies to circumvent them; hence, stresses the need to adopt legally binding rules on corporate social responsibility; in particular, calls on the Commission to provide effective measures to operationalise the UN Protect, Respect and Remedy Framework put forward by John Ruggie, the UN Special Representative on Business and Human Rights; insists equally upon the need to set up effective remedies to sanction the corporations guilty of violation of human rights and to provide redress for the victims of such violation;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that repeated infringements of core labour standards have been reported in several countries with GSP Plus status, but that this has not led to suspension of preferences;, which contradicts the principle of Policy Coherence Development; henceforth, urges the genuine enforcement of GSP Plus, to be implemented alongside a suitable transparent reporting mechanism and funding for civil society monitoring; regrets equally that the EU preferential trade agreements do not provide for genuine enforcement mechanisms; accordingly, emphasises the importance of systematically including human rights clauses in trade agreements and the need to include a complaint mechanism in those clauses;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Notes with deep concern that indigenous peoples are particularly affected by human rights violations related to resource extraction; calls on EEAS to support rigorous legal frameworks and initiatives aiming at transparency and good governance of mining and other resource sectors which respect local people’s free, prior and informed consent and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;