Ratified conventions by countries
- 1956 - Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
- 1957 - 1st Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field
- 1957 - 2nd Geneva Convention For the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea
- 1957 - 3rd Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
- 1957 - 4th Geneva Convention relative to the protection of civilian persons in time of war
- 1968 - International Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- 1975 - International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- 1975 - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- 1976 - Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
- 1977 - Additional Protocol Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (signature)
- 1977 - Additional Protocol Relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (signature)
- 1985 - International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid
- 1994 - Convention on the Rights of the Child
- 1997 - Convention on the Prohibition of the development, production, stockpilling and use of chemical weapons
- 2000 - Statute of the International Criminal Court (signature)
- 2007 - Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution, and Child Pornography
- 2010 - Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (signature)
