Chile is one of 22 countries to have signed and ratified the only binding international law concerning indigenous peoples , the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention , 1989 . It was adopted in 1989 as the International Labour Organization ( ILO ) Convention 169 . Chile ratified it in 2008 . A Chilean court decision in November 2009 considered to be a landmark ruling on indigenous rights and made use of the convention . The Supreme Court decision on Aymara water rights upheld rulings by both the Pozo Almonte tribunal and the Iquique Court of Appeals , and marks the first judicial application of ILO Convention 169 in Chile
Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention , 1989
Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989
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