Treaty | Signed | Ratified |
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) |
No |
Yes |
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination |
No |
Yes |
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) |
No |
Yes |
Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War |
No |
Yes |
Convention relating to the Status of Refugees |
No |
Yes |
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees |
No |
Yes |
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights |
No |
No |
United Nations Convention against Corruption |
Yes |
No |
Convention on Offenses and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft |
No |
Yes |
Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft |
No |
Yes |
Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Civil Aviation |
No |
Yes |
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 and that Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol |
No |
Yes |
Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971 |
No |
Yes |
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988 |
No |
Yes |
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide |
No |
Yes |
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime |
Yes |
No |
Joined UN 25 Aug 1980
Death Penalty Permitted (reintroduced in April 1991), last applied in June 2003 (data as of Jan. 2010) - can be applied for drug trafficking, murder, mutiny.