Convention Concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries in the United States

Article 29

The imparting of general knowledge and skills that will help children
belonging to the peoples concerned to participate fully and on an equal footing
in their own community and in the national community shall be an aim of
education for these peoples.

Article 30

1. Governments shall adopt measures appropriate to the traditions and
cultures of the peoples concerned, to make known to them their rights and
duties, especially in regard to labour, economic opportunities, education and
health matters, social welfare and their rights deriving from this Convention.

2. If necessary, this shall be done by means of written translations and
through the use of mass communications in the languages of these peoples.

Article 31

Educational measures shall be taken among all sections of the national
community, and particularly among those that are in most direct contact with the
peoples concerned, with the object of eliminating prejudices that they may
harbour in respect of these peoples. To this end, efforts shall be made to
ensure that history textbooks and other educational materials provide a fair,
accurate and informative portrayal of the societies and cultures of these
peoples.

PART VII. CONTACTS AND CO-OPERATION ACROSS BORDERS

Article 32

Governments shall take appropriate measures, including by means of
international agreements, to facilitate contacts and co-operation between
indigenous and tribal peoples across borders, including activities in the
economic, social, cultural, spiritual and environmental fields.

PART VIII. ADMINISTRATION

Article 33

1. The governmental authority responsible for the matters covered in this
Convention shall ensure that agencies or other appropriate mechanisms exist to
administer the programmes affecting the peoples concerned, and shall ensure that
they have the means necessary for the proper fulfilment of the functions
assigned to them.

2. These programmes shall include:

(a) the planning, co-ordination, execution and evaluation, in co-operation with
the peoples concerned, of the measures provided for in this Convention;

(b) the proposing of legislative and other measures to the competent authorities
and supervision of the application of the measures taken, in co-operation with
the peoples concerned.

PART IX. GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 34

The nature and scope of the measures to be taken to give effect to this
Convention shall be determined in a flexible manner, having regard to the
conditions characteristic of each country.

Article 35

The application of the provisions of this Convention shall not adversely
affect rights and benefits of the peoples concerned pursuant to other
Conventions and Recommendations, international instruments, treaties, or
national laws, awards, custom or agreements.

PART X. FINAL PROVISIONS

Article 36

This Convention revises the Indigenous and Tribal Populations Convention,
1957.

Article 37

The formal ratifications of this Convention shall be communicated to the
Director-General of the International Labour Office for registration.

Article 38

1. This Convention shall be binding only upon those Members of the
International Labour Organisation whose ratifications have been registered with
the Director-General.

2. It shall come into force twelve months after the date on which the
ratifications of two Members have been registered with the Director-General.

3. Thereafter, this Convention shall come into force for any Member twelve
months after the date on which its ratification has been registered.

Article 39

1. A Member which has ratified this Convention may denounce it after the
expiration of ten years from the date on which the Convention first comes into
force, by an act communicated to the Director-General of the International
Labour Office for registration. Such denunciation shall not take effect until
one year after the date on which it is registered.

2. Each Member which has ratified this Convention and which does not, within
the year following the expiration of the period of ten years mentioned in the
preceding paragraph, exercise the right of denunciation provided for in this
Article, will be bound for another period of ten years and, thereafter, may
denounce this Convention at the expiration of each period of ten years under the
terms provided for in this Article.

Article 40

1. The Director-General of the International Labour Office shall notify all
Members of the International Labour Organisation of the registration of all
ratifications and denunciations communicated to him by the Members of the
Organisation.

2. When notifying the Members of the Organisation of the registration of the
second ratification communicated to him, the Director-General shall draw the
attention of the Members of the Organisation to the date upon which the
Convention will come into force.

Article 41

The Director-General of the International Labour Office shall communicate to
the Secretary-General of the United Nations for registration in accordance with
Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations full particulars of all
ratifications and acts of denunciation registered by him in accordance with the
provisions of the preceding Articles.

Article 42

At such times as it may consider necessary the Governing Body of the
International Labour Office shall present to the General Conference a report on
the working of this Convention and shall examine the desirability of placing on
the agenda of the Conference the question of its revision in whole or in part.

Article 43

1. Should the Conference adopt a new Convention revising this Convention in
whole or in part, then, unless the new Convention otherwise provides –

(a) the ratification by a Member of the new revising Convention shall ipso jure
involve the immediate denunciation of this Convention, notwithstanding the
provisions of Article 39 above, if and when the new revising Convention shall
have come into force;

(b) as from the date when the new revising Convention comes into force this
Convention shall cease to be open to ratification by the Members.

2. This Convention shall in any case remain in force in its actual form and
content for those Members which have ratified it but have not ratified the
revising Convention.

Article 44

The English and French versions of the text of this Convention are equally
authoritative.