Ratified conventions by countries
- 1950 - Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
- 1951 - 1st Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field
- 1951 - 2nd Geneva Convention For the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea
- 1951 - 3rd Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
- 1951 - 4th Geneva Convention relative to the protection of civilian persons in time of war
- 1974 - 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
- 1979 - Additional Protocol Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts
- 1979 - Additional Protocol Relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts
- 1991 - Convention on the Rights of the Child
- 1992 - Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- 1992 - Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women
- 1992 - International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid
- 1997 - Convention on the Prohibition of the development, production, stockpilling and use of chemical weapons
- 1998 - Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpilling, production and transfer and antipersonnel mines
- 2002 - Statute of the International Criminal Court
- 2006 - Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution, and Child Pornography
- 2007 - Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict
