5 Amendments of Michael GAHLER related to 2020/2129(INL)
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) highlight the duty of states to protect against human rights abuses within their territories, jurisdictions, or both, by third parties, including businesses; regrets that some states have failed to fulfil their respective human rights obligations; further emphasises that, independently of the ability and willingness of states to fulfil their human rights obligations, businesses have the responsibility to respect human rights wherever they operate and to address adverse human rights impacts with which they are connected, including by enabling providing remedies to victims;
Amendment 125 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Acknowledges that in some sectors programmes, standards and certification schemes are already implemented to fulfil the human rights obligations in the supply chains;
Amendment 130 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Recommends that, requirements for corporate mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence be grounded in the principle of corporate responsibility to respect human rights as articulated by the UNGPs; businesses should avoid infringing human rights and address adverse human rights impacts with which they are directly or indirectly connected, entailing in practice that they should have in place an embedded human rights policy, a human rights due diligence process and appropriate and adequate measures to facilitate access to effective remedies for business-related human rights abuses, including at company level, and other grievance mechanisms;
Amendment 215 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 44
Paragraph 44
44. Insists that access to evidence and time limitations can be major practical and procedural barriers faced by victims of human rights abuses in third countries, obstructing their access to effective legal remedies; stresses that that the burden of proof should be shifted from the victims to the company and that the legislation must require companies to disclose all necessary information for interested parties to engage in judicial proceedings and for victims to access remedies;
Amendment 242 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 51
Paragraph 51