Horwood was the chairman and founder of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Tribal Peoples . Created in 2007 , the APPG for Tribal Peoples is composed of over 30 cross-party MPs and peers with the aim of raising parliamentary and public awareness of tribal peoples . Its secretariat is the international indigenous rights organisation , Survival International . The Group meets two or three times a year and one of its main objectives is to press for ratification of ILO Convention 169 on the rights of indigenous and tribal peoples
ILO Convention 169
Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989
Martin Horwood