Burkina Faso
| Legal Instrument | Signed | Ratified | Deposited | |
| AU Convention Governing Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa | 10/09/1969 | 19/03/1974 | 16/08/1978 | |
| African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance | 02/08/2007 | 26/05/2010 | 06/07/2010 | |
| African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights | 05/03/1984 | 06/07/1984 | 21/09/1984 | |
| African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child | 27/02/1992 | 08/06/1992 | 10/07/1992 | |
| Constitutive Act of the African Union | 12/07/2000 | 27/02/2001 | 02/03/2001 | |
| Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment | 21/09/2005 | 07/07/2010 | ||
| 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 | 31/12/1998 | 23/02/1999 | |
| Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa | 26/02/2004 | 09/06/2006 | 09/08/2006 | |
| United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment | 04/01/1999 |