Treaty Law
United Nations
- Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of Justice (1945)
- Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity (1968)
- Convention against Corruption (2003)
- Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto (2000 and 2001)
- Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984)
- Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment: Optional Protocol (2002)
- Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees (1951)
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1979)
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Optional Protocol (2006)
- Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)
- Geneva Convention (I) for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field (1949)
- Geneva Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea (1949)
- Geneva Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (1949)
- Geneva Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (1949)
- Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I) (1977)
- Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (Protocol II) (1977)
- International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (2006)
- International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (1965)
- International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (1990)
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Optional Protocol I (1966)
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Optional Protocol II (1989)
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966)
- Slavery Convention (1926)
- Protocol amending the Slavery Convention (1953)
Africa and the Middle East
- African (Banjul) Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (1981)
- African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (1990)
- Arab Charter on Human Rights (2004)
- Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa (1969)
- Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (2003)
- African Union Convention on Ending Violence Against Women and Girls (2025)
America
- OAS Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance (2013)
- OAS Inter-American Convention against Racism, Racial Discrimination and Related Forms of Intolerance (2013)
- OAS Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons (1994)
- OAS Inter-American Convention on Human Rights “Pact of San Jose, Costa Rica” (1969)
- OAS Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women (Convention of Belém do Pará) (1994)
- OAS Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture (1985)
- OAS Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish the Acts of Terrorism taking the form of Crimes against Persons and Related Extortion that are of international significance (1971)
- Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights to abolish the Death Penalty (1990)
Europe
- Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (2000)
- CoE Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (2005)
- CoE Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (2011)
- CoE European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1987)
- CoE Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism (2005)
- CoE Additional Protocol to the Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism (2015)
- CoE Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (2012)
- CoE European Social Charter (revised) (1996)
- Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/928 of 21 May 2025 amending Regulation (EU) 2019/125 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning trade in certain goods which could be used for capital punishment, torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
- ECHR-CoE European Convention on Human Rights (1950)
- Police Cooperation Convention for Southeast Europe (2006)
- Protocol No. 15 amending the Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
- Regulation (EU) 2019/125 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 January 2019 concerning trade in certain goods which could be used for capital punishment, torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment