General Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2023, published 112nd ILC session (2024)

Vanuatu

The Committee notes with deep concern that, for the fifth year, the reports due on ratified Conventions have not been received. The Committee also notes that the first report on the application of the Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138), due since 2021, has not been received. Nine reports are now due, some of which should have included information in reply to the Committee’s comments, including on fundamental Conventions.

On the basis of the decision of the Committee concerning the treatment of urgent appeals, the Committee decided to examine, at this session, the application of Convention No. 185 for which the report has not been received for three years or more, based on public information at its disposal.

The Committee firmly hopes that the Government will soon submit all its reports in accordance with its constitutional obligation and that they will respond to the Committee’s comments.