March 13, 2007- The International Finance Corporation (IFC) announced today the release of a new IFC publication, "ILO Convention 169 and the Private Sector: Questions and Answers for IFC Clients." ...

ILO Convention 169 may not mean very much to most of us, but to the world’s 150 million tribal people, it is probably the most important law in the world, for it recognizes some of their ...

Rosa Weber, the chief justice of Brazil’s Supreme Court, launched Monday (Sep. 11) the version of the International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention 169 in the Kaiapó indigenous language.

The UN's top expert on indigenous rights has called on the governments of South Africa and New Zealand to ratify ILO Convention 169 on indigenous and tribal peoples' rights. Dr Rodolfo Stavenhagen ...

After 17 years of deliberation, Chile ratified ILO Convention 169 in 2008. Chile was one of the last Latin American countries to ratify the convention, which was established in 1989, ...

"The term ‘Indigenous peoples’ is to be understood in the context of the International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention (No. 169) concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries ...

In our call, we urge for governments and corporations to respect, protect, and fulfill Indigenous Peoples’ rights, specifically the right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), as the minimum ...

Finland has debated the ILO’s convention 169, which protects the rights of indigenous people, for 30 years. Lawmakers have been looking at draft legislation to ratify the convention since 2014, ...

The task of ratifying the ILO Convention 169 as well as a Nordic Sámi Convention and reforming the local Sámi Parliament will therefore fall to the incoming administration. Edit: Updated at 4.57pm on ...