Chile has signed up to the world's key international law on tribal peoples, following Spain and Nepal to become the third country to sign in the last eighteen months.
The Chilean senate voted overwhelmingly in favour of ratifying International Labour Organisation Convention 169 (ILO 169), which recognizes the rights of indigenous peoples to ownership of their land.
Most of Chile's South American neighbours have ratified the convention, but only four European countries have done so: Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and Spain. Chile's ratification will increase pressure on the British government, which is being targeted in an international campaign to persuade it to ratify the convention.
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