Today this Convention , C107 , is considered outdated in the protection of indigenous rights by the ILO organization . In 1989 , the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention , 1989 ( C169 ) was written with the purpose of revising it . The new convention has been ratified by twenty countries , including some that denounced the 1957 convention . In the body of the more recent convention , we read , " ... Considering that the developments which have taken place in international law since 1957 , as well as developments in the situation of indigenous and tribal peoples in all regions of the world , have made it appropriate to adopt new international standards on the subject with a view to removing the assimilationist orientation of the earlier standards ... "
Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention , 1989
Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989
Indigenous and Tribal Populations Convention, 1957