Ratified conventions by countries
- 1959 - 1st Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field
- 1959 - 2nd Geneva Convention For the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea
- 1959 - 3rd Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
- 1959 - 4th Geneva Convention relative to the protection of civilian persons in time of war
- 1960 - Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
- 1972 - International Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- 1973 - Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees
- 1978 - International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- 1978 - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- 1978 - Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
- 1985 - Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women
- 1988 - Additional Protocol Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts
- 1988 - Additional Protocol Relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts
- 1989 - Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- 1990 - Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
- 1993 - Convention on the Rights of the Child
- 1996 - Convention on the Prohibition of the development, production, stockpilling and use of chemical weapons
- 1999 - Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpilling, production and transfer and antipersonnel mines
- 2000 - Statute of the International Criminal Court
- 2006 - Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness
- 2007 - Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- 2009 - Convention on Cluster Munitions
