Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2013, published 103rd ILC session (2014)

Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169) - Spain (Ratification: 2007)

The Committee notes the comprehensive report provided by the Government for the period ending in June 2013. The Government reviews the main provisions of the Spanish Constitution of 1978 that ensure indigenous peoples’ effective enjoyment of their human rights, and the provisions of national law that prohibit discrimination on the basis of racial or ethnic origin. The Government emphasizes that in the same year that it ratified the Convention (2007), the Spanish Strategy for Cooperation with Indigenous peoples (ECEPI) was published. In order to implement the ECEPI, the Indigenous Programme of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation was consolidated. The Committee notes with interest that the promotion and implementation of the rights of indigenous peoples through Convention No. 169 is one of the five priority components of the Indigenous Programme. The Government adds that, as a result of the ratification of the Convention, the ILO’s Programme to Promote Convention No. 169 (PRO 169) received €2,650,000 during the 2008–10 period. The ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC), and the Secretariat of the Convention on biological diversity, among others, also received Spanish international cooperation resources to promote the rights of indigenous peoples. The Committee welcomes the Government on this generous approach, which promotes the Convention in both the national and international spheres. The Committee invites the Government to continue to provide information on the impact of the measures adopted to promote Convention No. 169 in the national context and of its international cooperation policy.