Conventions, Treaties, and Statutes that make up international law, applicable to human rights as part of the body of International Humanitarian Law (List of treaties; PDF files):
- 1st Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field
- 2nd Geneva Convention For the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea
- 3rd Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
- 4th Geneva Convention relative to the protection of civilian persons in time of war
- Additional Protocol Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts
- Additional Protocol Relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts
- African Charter on Human and People’s Rights
- American Convention on Human Rights
- Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa
- Convention on Cluster Munitions
- Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women
- Convention on the non-applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes
- Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid
- Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
- Convention on the Prohibition of the development, production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons
- Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, production and transfer and antipersonnel mines
- Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness
- Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
- Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons
- European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
- European Convention on the non applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes
- Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture
- International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
- International Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict
- Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution, and Child Pornography
- Protocol to the African Charter on the Rights of Women in Africa
- Statute of the International Criminal Court