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
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