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States shall, in conjunction with indigenous peoples, take effective
measures, in order for indigenous individuals, particularly children, including those
living outside their communities, to have access, when possible, to an education in
their own culture and provided in their own language.
Article 15
1.
Indigenous peoples have the right to the dignity and diversity of their
cultures, traditions, histories and aspirations which shall be appropriately reflected
in education and public information.
2.
States shall take effective measures, in consultation and cooperation with
the indigenous peoples concerned, to combat prejudice and eliminate discrimination
and to promote tolerance, understanding and good relations among indigenous
peoples and all other segments of society.
Article 16
1.
Indigenous peoples have the right to establish their own media in their
own languages and to have access to all forms of non-indigenous media without
discrimination.
2.
States shall take effective measures to ensure that State-owned media
duly reflect indigenous cultural diversity. States, without prejudice to ensuring full
freedom of expression, should encourage privately owned media to adequately
reflect indigenous cultural diversity.
Article 17
1.
Indigenous individuals and peoples have the right to enjoy fully all rights
established under applicable international and domestic labour law.
2.
States shall in consultation and cooperation with indigenous peoples take
specific measures to protect indigenous children from economic exploitation and
from performing any work that is likely to be hazardous or to interfere with the
child’s education, or to be harmful to the child’s health or physical, mental,
spiritual, moral or social development, taking into account their special vulnerability
and the importance of education for their empowerment.
3.
Indigenous individuals have the right not to be subjected to any
discriminatory conditions of labour and, inter alia, employment or salary.
Article 18
Indigenous peoples have the right to participate in decision-making in matters
which would affect their rights, through representatives chosen by themselves in
accordance with their own procedures, as well as to maintain and develop their own
indigenous decision-making institutions.
Article 19
States shall consult and cooperate in good faith with the indigenous peoples
concerned through their own representative institutions in order to obtain their free,
prior and informed consent before adopting and implementing legislative or
administrative measures that may affect them.
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