Benin
| Legal Instrument | Signed | Ratified | Deposited | |
| AU Convention Governing Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa | 10/09/1969 | 26/02/1973 | 12/03/1973 | |
| African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance | 16/07/2007 | |||
| African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights | 11/02/2004 | 20/01/1986 | 25/02/1986 | |
| African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child | 27/02/1992 | 17/04/1997 | 30/05/1997 | |
| Constitutive Act of the African Union | 12/07/2000 | 03/07/2001 | 11/07/2001 | |
| Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment | 24/02/2005 | 20/09/2006 | ||
| Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Establishment of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights | 09/06/1998 | |||
| Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa | 11/02/2004 | 30/09/2005 | 13/10/2005 | |
| United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment | 12/03/1992 |