The present article aims to provide a historical review about the rise of the International Labour Organization and its evolution over time to reach to the position where it is today, and his work as protector of the worker as a human being worthy and not the machine.

En el presente artículo se pretende realizar una revisión histórica acerca del surgimiento de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo, así como su evolución con el paso del tiempo hasta llegar a la posición en la que se encuentra hoy en día, y su labor como protector del trabajador en tanto ser humano digno y no de la máquina.

The present article aims to provide a historical review about the rise of the International Labour Organization and its evolution over time to reach to the position where it is today, and his work as protector of the worker as a human being worthy and not the machine.

In the framework of public international law, the collective rights recognized and protected by the ILO Convention No. 169 on indigenous and tribal peoples (1969) are considered human rights. Considering that law and reality constantly feed each other, even more so in the emerging disruptive era, multiculturalism and interculturality, the rights approach, international protection systems and public international law allow to offer preliminary reflections that underline these relationships in the progressive recognition of the Convention as part of international human rights law.