Image: Vanuatu Tourism Office Vanuatu has ratified core human rights treaties including: • • • • • Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) Convention on the Rights of a Child (CRC) International Convention of Civil and Political Rights (CCPR) Convention Against Torture (CAT) Vanuatu has also ratified a number of International Labour Organisations (ILO) conventions that aim to protect and uphold the rights of its workers. Furthmore, it has ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of a Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of a Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. 38