In 2019, Somalia ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Somalia has not accepted the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Somalia has signed and ratified:

  • Convention against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
  • International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
  • International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
  • International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  • Convention on the Rights of the Child

Somalia has signed, but not ratified

  • Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict

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