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INDIGENOUS PEOPLES RIGHTS AND THE ILO CONVENTIONAL CONTROL. SOME THOUGHTS ON THE CASES OF ECUADOR, VENEZUELA, AND BOLIVIA

Abstract:

The ILO Convention 169 is together with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples adopted in 2007 the hard core and fundamental legal body of International Law on Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples Rights. Despite being soft law and not legally binding, the Convention 169 has been well received in America, where many countries are multilingual, multicultural, and multinational. This article’s aim is to analyse emblematic cases regarding the justiciability of indigenous peoples rights in Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela, with regard to the Convention 169 and its strategical use by the different actors involved in indigenous peoples rights disputes.