Categories ICCA on the international level, Indigenous people’s rights and human rights, Key policies

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention no. 169, 1989

First published on 12/31/1989, and last updated on 05/31/2016

This convention revises the Indigenous and Tribal populations Convention of 1957

Article 3.1 ‘Indigenous and tribal peoples shall enjoy the full measure of human rights and fundamental freedoms without hindrance or discrimination. The provisions of the Convention shall be applied without discrimination to male and female members of these peoples’.

Article 6.B ‘Establish means by which these peoples can freely participate, to at least the same extent as other sectors of the population, at all levels of decision making in elective institutions and administrative and other bodies responsible for policies and programmes which concern them’

Article 28.3 ‘Measures shall be taken to preserve and promote the development and practice of the indigenous languages of the peoples concerned’