Provisions of the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 and other international documents in the field of idigenous peoples rights protection

Abstract

In the article the analysis of the main international documents on indigenous people's rights protection is given. The basement of it is the ILO Convention on indigenous and tribal peoples, 1989. Author in his work retrace the dynamics of the formation and development of the international standards in this field, which gives us the possibility to watch the international law evolution, to determine its role in the contemporary system of the indigenous people's rights protection and to appraise its potential in future.