Instrument |
Date of Ratification or Adhesion |
| American Convention on Human
Rights "Pact of San José, Costa Rica" |
July
31, 1973 |
| Inter-American Convention to
Prevent and Punish Torture |
January
19, 1999 |
| Inter-American
Convention on
Forced Disappearance of Persons |
Signed
on August 5, 1994 but instrument of ratification not yet deposited |
| Inter-American Convention on
the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence against Women "Convention of
Belém Do Pará |
November
15, 1996 |
| Additional Protocol to the
American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
"Protocol of San Salvador" |
December
23, 1997 |
| International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights |
October
29, 1969 |
| International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights |
October
29, 1969 |
| Optional Protocol to the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights |
October
29, 1969 |
| International Convention on
the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination |
September
2, 1981 |
| International Convention on
the Suppression and Punishment on the Crime of Apartheid |
May 23,
1988 |
| Convention on the Rights of
the Child |
January
28, 1991 |
| Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
January
19, 1982 |
| Convention on the Prevention
and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide |
October
27, 1959 |
| Convention against Torture and
Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment |
December
8, 1987 |
| Convention Relating to the
Status of Refugees |
October
10, 1961 |
| Protocol Relating to the
Status of Refugees |
March
4, 1980 |
| Convention on the Political
Rights of Women |
August
5, 1986 |
| Geneva Conventions of
August 12, 1949: 1. For the Amelioration of the Condition of
the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field
2. For the Amelioration of the
Condition of Wounded, Sick and
Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea
3. Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
4. Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of war |
November
8, 1962 |
| Protocol Additional to the
Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949, Relating to the Protection of Victims of
International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I) |
September
1, 1993 |
| Additional Protocol II to the
Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949 Relating to the Protection of Victims of
Non-International Armed Conflicts (Protocol II) |
August
14, 1995 |
