Observation Générale (CEACR) - adoptée 2024, publiée 113ème session CIT (2025)

Vanuatu

The Committee notes with deep concern that, for the sixth 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, including on fundamental Conventions, some of which should have included information in reply to the Committee’s comments.

The Committee launches again an urgent appeal to the Government to send its reports without delay and advises it that, even in the absence of these reports, the Committee may fully review the application of these Conventions at its next meeting on the basis of available information.

Recalling that technical assistance was provided on these issues by the ILO Country Office for Pacific Island Countries in 2023 and the International Training Centre of the ILO in 2024, the Committee 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.