Solicitud directa (CEACR) - Adopción: 2013, Publicación: 103ª reunión CIT (2014)

Convenio sobre pueblos indígenas y tribales, 1989 (núm. 169) - Ecuador (Ratificación : 1998)

The Committee refers the Government to its observation of 2013 and the comments made in 2009 and requests it to submit sufficiently early in 2014 a report containing full information on the following matters.

Legislation. The Committee requests the Government to report on the main changes in law and practice resulting from the adoption of the 2008 Constitution that have a bearing on the Convention.

Coordinated and systematic action. Appropriate agencies and mechanisms. The Committee again invites the Government to provide information on the measures taken to institutionalize and strengthen the bodies in charge of indigenous policy and to supply particulars of:

• (i) the work of such bodies; and
• (ii) how indigenous participation in such bodies is conducted in practice, for the purposes of Articles 2 and 33 of the Convention.

Articles 8 to 10 of the Convention. Justice. The Committee requests the Government to provide information on the results of the efforts made to secure better application of Articles 8 to 10 of the Convention and to include examples of decisions that have taken account of the customs or customary law of the peoples concerned.

Article 14. Lands. Land registry. The Committee refers the Government to its direct request of 2009 and asks it to indicate whether consideration is still being given to establishing a land registry system, and to provide information on the measures taken to secure the availability of accurate and reliable information enabling it to determine the lands traditionally occupied by the peoples concerned.

Lands and bodies responsible for land titling. The Committee invites the Government to state in its next report whether the National Agrarian Development Institute and the other competent public bodies have had the means they need to ensure that the land rights referred to in the Convention are applied.

Article 20. Conditions of employment. The Committee invites the Government to specify the measures taken to ensure proper labour inspection in areas where workers belonging to indigenous peoples carry on activities.

Article 32. Cross-border contacts and cooperation. The Government stated previously that progress was being made in facilitating contact with the indigenous peoples living at Ecuador’s borders with Peru. The Committee invites the Government to provide information on agreements reached with Colombia and Peru on matters pertaining to the Convention.

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2014.]