 After becoming a sovereign state in 1994, Palau joined the UN and ratified the Convention on the Rights of a Child (CRC) in 1995, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the Optional Protocol to the CRPD in 2013.In 2011, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) in 2011 and other core human rights treaties were signed.These treaties are yet to be ratified.