Activities of Joachim ZELLER related to 2017/2206(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Violation of rights of indigenous peoples in the world (debate) DE
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on violation of the rights of indigenous peoples in the world, including land grabbing PDF (667 KB) DOC (101 KB)
Amendments (16)
Amendment 24 #
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 negativen impact on their ways of life or that can lead to the displacement of their populations;
Amendment 43 #
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 unsustainable 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 as well as governments and the local population, constitutes one of the main causes of enduring conflict over land tenure and the main cause for water and soil contamination;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas a great number of EU- based investors and companies among many others 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 the multiple foreign ramifications of those actors, it can prove difficult to trace their roots directly to the EU and its Member States;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on all states, including the EU and its Member States, to legally recogniseaccept and respect the territorial autonomy of the traditional lands of indigenous people;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Urges the EU and its Member States to redoublestrengthen their efforts in order to ensure the physical integrity and the legal assistance of indigenous, environmental and land rights defenders, taking particular account of the protection of women, children and people with disabilities;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on all states, including the EU and its Member States, to ensure that their environmental conservation policpolitical strategies fully respect the rights of indigenous peoples and rural communities so that when protected areas are created or extended, compliance with these rights has already been established;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Urges the EU and its Member Sall states to monitor and publicly report the land acquisitions, particularly those involving EU-based corporations and actors or EU-funded development projects, in countries where such deals could result in the violation of human rights, instructing and capacitating EU Delegations and embassies for that purpose ;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on all states, especially the EU and its Member States, to adopt and give their support to the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests of the Committee on World Food Security and to sign forest law enforcement, governance and trade voluntary partnership agreements with as many relevant countries as possible; calls on the Commission to ensure strict compliance with and implementation of the Timber Regulation and to sanction Member States that fail to comply with the Directive;
Amendment 158 #
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;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the EU to fulfil its extraterritorial duties related to human rights, and resolves to request legislative proposals from the Commission and to work together with the European Council to create legislation, in the framework of development cooperation, to prevent and sanction extraterritorial violations of the rights of indigenous peoples and of local communities;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 4
Subheading 4
Sustainable and economic development tofor indigenous people
Amendment 174 #
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 i, in the framework of their development cooperation with third countries, to take particular account of the situation ain the urban environment and, in order to reducthe context of poverty reduction measures, to mitigate the effects of uprooting and of the mismatch between their traditional capabilities and cultural specificities of indigenous peoples and contemporary metropolitan dynamics;
Amendment 181 #
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 and economic opportunities, to promoting intercultural public policies, to incorporating indigenous languages and cultures into their school programs 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;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Recommends that greater prominence be given to this issuee situation of indigenous peoples in the EU’s foreign policy, including in its human rights dialogues with third countries, EU policy documents as well as in trade, cooperation and development agreements negotiated or concluded with other countries; calls on the EU and its Member States to take into account the result of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in the annual monitoring report in order to ascertain the conformity of their policies with the rights of indigenous peoples;
Amendment 201 #
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 and resources of indigenous peoples rigorously comply with the principle of free, prior and informed consent;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Calls on the EU to increase the degree of ambition and endowment of its programmes of support to indigenous peoples; lude support to indigenous peoples in its development cooperation programmes and for this also to be expressed through an increased financial endowment;