Chart of Ratifications

AU HUMAN RIGHTS TREATIES

Position as at 31 December 2023

Compiled by: I de Meyer

Source: http//www.au.int (accessed 31 May 2024)

	African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights	AU Conven-tion Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa	African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child	Protocol to the African Charter on the Establish-ment of an African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights	Protocol to the African Charter on the Rights of Women	African Charter on Demo-cracy, Elections and Gover-nance
COUNTRY	Ratified/Acceded	Ratified/Acceded	Ratified/Acceded	Ratified/Acceded	Ratified/Acceded	Ratified/Acceded
Algeria	01/03/87	24/05/74	08/07/03	22/04/03	20/11/16	10/01/17
Angola	02/03/90	30/04/81	11/04/92		30/08/07	08/06/21
Benin	20/01/86	26/02/73	17/04/97	10/06/14	30/09/05	28/06/12
Botswana	17/07/86	04/05/95	10/07/01
Burkina Faso	06/07/84	19/03/74	08/06/92	31/12/98*	09/06/06	26/05/10
Burundi	28/07/89	31/10/75	28/06/04	02/04/03
Cameroon	20/06/89	07/09/85	05/09/97	09/12/14	13/09/12	24/08/11
Cape Verde	02/06/87	16/02/89	20/07/93		21/06/05
Central African Republic	26/04/86	23/07/70	07/07/16			24/04/07
Chad	09/10/86	12/08/81	30/03/00	27/01/16		11/07/11
Comoros	01/06/86	02/04/04	18/03/04	23/12/03	18/03/04	30/11/16
Congo	09/12/82	16/01/71	08/09/06	10/08/10	14/12/11
Côte d’Ivoire	06/01/92	26/02/98	01/03/02	07/01/03	05/10/11	16/10/13
Democratic Republic of Congo	20/07/87	14/02/73	31/01/17	31/01/17	09/06/08
Djibouti	11/11/91		03/01/11		02/02/05	02/12/12
Egypt	20/03/84	12/06/80	09/05/01
Equatorial Guinea	07/04/86	08/09/80	20/12/02		27/10/09	11/07/17
Eritrea	14/01/99		22/12/99
Eswatini	15/09/95	16/01/89	05/10/12		05/10/12
Ethiopia	15/06/98	15/10/73	02/10/02		18/07/18	05/12/08
Gabon	20/02/86	21/03/86	18/05/07	14/08/00	10/01/11
The Gambia	08/06/83	12/11/80	14/12/00	30/06/99*	25/05/05	11/06/08
Ghana	24/01/89	19/06/75	10/06/05	25/08/04*	13/06/07	06/09/10
Guinea	16/02/82	18/10/72	27/05/99		16/04/12	17/06/11
Guinea-Bissau	04/12/85	27/06/89	19/06/08	4/10/21*	19/06/08	23/12/11
Kenya	23/01/92	23/06/92	25/07/00	04/02/04	06/10/10	07/01/21
Lesotho	10/02/92	18/11/88	27/09/99	28/10/03	26/10/04	30/06/10
Liberia	04/08/82	01/10/71	01/08/07		14/12/07	23/02/14
Libya	19/07/86	25/04/81	23/09/00	19/11/03	23/05/04
Madagascar	09/03/92		30/03/05	12/10/21		23/02/17
Malawi	17/11/89	04/11/87	16/09/99	09/09/08*	20/05/05	11/10/12
Mali	21/12/81	10/10/81	03/06/98	10/05/00*	13/01/05	13/08/13
Mauritania	14/06/86	22/07/72	21/09/05	19/05/05	21/09/05	07/07/08
Mauritius	19/06/92		14/02/92	03/03/03	16/06/17
Mozambique	22/02/89	22/02/89	15/07/98	17/07/04	09/12/05	24/04/18
Namibia	30/07/92		23/07/04		11/08/04	23/08/16
Niger	15/07/86	16/09/71	11/12/99	17/05/04*		04/10/11
Nigeria	22/06/83	23/05/86	23/07/01	20/05/04	16/12/04	01/12/11
Rwanda	15/07/83	19/11/79	11/05/01	05/05/03	25/06/04	09/07/10
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Rep.	02/05/86			27/11/13	19/03/22	27/11/13
São Tomé and Príncipe	23/05/86		18/04/19		18/04/19	18/04/19
Senegal	13/08/82	01/04/71	29/09/98	29/09/98	27/12/04
Seychelles	13/04/92	11/09/80	13/02/92		09/03/06	12/08/16
Sierra Leone	21/09/83	28/12/87	13/05/02		03/07/15	17/02/09
Somalia	31/07/85
South Africa	09/07/96	15/12/95	07/01/00	03/07/02	17/12/04	24/12/10
South Sudan	24/01/13	04/12/13			24/02/23	13/04/15
Sudan	18/02/86	24/12/72	30/07/05			19/06/13
Tanzania	18/02/84	10/01/75	16/03/03	07/02/06	03/03/07
Togo	05/11/82	10/04/70	05/05/98	23/06/03	21/10/05	24/01/12
Tunisia	16/03/83	17/11/89		21/08/07*	23/08/18
Uganda	10/05/86	24/07/87	17/08/94	16/02/01	22/07/10
Zambia	10/01/84	30/07/73	02/12/08	28/12/22	02/05/06	31/05/11
Zimbabwe	30/05/86	28/09/85	19/01/95		15/04/08	06/04/22
TOTAL NUMBER OF STATES	54	46	50	34	44	38

Ratifications after 31 December 2023 are indicated in bold

* State parties to the Protocol to the African Charter on the Establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights that have made a declaration under article 34(6) of this Protocol, which is still valid.

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