Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 3, Number 9, 1 September 1986 — Burgess Selected as Chief Delegate [ARTICLE]

Burgess Selected as Chief Delegate

Hayden F. Burgess has been selected chief delegate from the Woi ld Council of Indigenous Peoples (WCIP) to the Internatianal Labor Organization's (ILO) review of their convention concerning "the protection and integration of indigenous and other tribal and semitribal populations in independent countries." (Quote taken from Convention 107)

The ILO is an international organization created in 1919 to bring together governments, employers and trade unions into united action for social justice and better living conditions. In 1969, the ILO was awarded the Nobel Peaee Prize. It numbers 151 countries as members, including the United States, U.S.S.R., China, Australia and Canada. Its main office is in Geneva, Switzerland. Burgess will be attending an ILO meeting

Sept. 1-10 in Geneva. During his work with the ILO, Burgess will also be meeting with members of the United Nation's Working Group on Indigenous Populations to discuss the further work of that group. Due to the U.S. refusal to pay its full U.N. assessment, mueh of the U.N. human rights work, including the working group, has been cancelled for 1986.

Burgess hopes the working group will eventually adopt standards setting forth the rights of indigenous peoples throughout the world. Recently, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs adopted the standard whieh the WCIP had submitted to the U.N. working group for adoption.