Ratified conventions by Somalia
- 1962 - 2nd Geneva Convention For the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea
- 1962 - 3rd Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
- 1962 - 4th Geneva Convention relative to the protection of civilian persons in time of war
- 1962 - 1st Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field
- 1975 - International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid
- 1975 - International Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- 1978 - Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
- 1978 - Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees
- 1985 - African Charter on Human and People's Rights
- 1990 - International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- 1990 - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- 1990 - Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- 1990 - Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- 2012 - Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpilling, production and transfer and antipersonnel mines
- 2013 - Convention on the Prohibition of the development, production, stockpilling and use of chemical weapons
- 2015 - Convention on the Rights of the Child
- 2015 - Convention on Cluster Munitions
- Signature 2005 - Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict
- Signature 2006 - Protocol to the African Charter on the Rights of Women in Africa
- Signature 2006 - Protocol on the Establishment of an African Court on Human and People's Rights