International Treaties
Nigeria's stances on international human rights treaties are as follows:
| Treaty | Organization | Introduced | Signed | Accession, Ratification |
| Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide | United Nations | 1948 | - | 2009 (A) |
| International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination | United Nations | 1966 | - | 1967 (A) |
| International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights | United Nations | 1966 | - | 1993 (A) |
| International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights | United Nations | 1966 | - | 1993 (A) |
| First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights | United Nations | 1966 | - | - |
| Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity | United Nations | 1968 | - | 1970 (A) |
| International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid | United Nations | 1973 | 1974 | 1977 (R) |
| Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women | United Nations | 1979 | 1984 | 1985 (R) |
| Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment | United Nations | 1984 | 1988 | 2001 (R) |
| Convention on the Rights of the Child | United Nations | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 (R) |
| Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty | United Nations | 1989 | - | - |
| International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families | United Nations | 1990 | - | 2009 (A) |
| Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women | United Nations | 1999 | 2000 | 2004 (R) |
| Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict | United Nations | 2000 | 2000 | - |
| Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography | United Nations | 2000 | 2000 | 2010 (R) |
| Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities | United Nations | 2006 | 2007 | 2010 (R) |
| Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities | United Nations | 2006 | 2007 | 2010 (R) |
| International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance | United Nations | 2006 | 2009 | - |
| Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights | United Nations | 2008 | - | - |
| Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure | United Nations | 2011 | - | - |
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“The fate of the State decides theirs: clauses of treaties determine their affections.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)