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

Indigenous and Tribal Populations Convention, 1957 (No. 107) - Dominican Republic (Ratification: 1958)

The Committee notes that it has not received the Government’s report for the period ending 31 May 2013. The Committee recalls that the Governing Body invited States parties to Convention No. 107 to contemplate ratifying the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169), which would, ipso jure, involve the immediate denunciation of Convention No. 107 (GB.270/LILS/3(Rev.1), November 1997). The Committee observes that in Latin America the term “tribal” has been applied to certain communities of African descent, as indicated in the Handbook for ILO Tripartite Constituents on Convention No. 169, published by the Office in February 2013. The Committee invites the Government to indicate in its next report whether it has contemplated, with the social partners, the possibility of ratifying Convention No. 169. Furthermore, the Committee invites the Government to consider including information on afro-descendent communities in its report on Convention No. 107 taking into consideration that the cultural values of these communities could lie within the scope of certain provisions of the Convention.

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