Cape Verde
| Legal Instrument | Signed | Ratified | Deposited | |
| AU Convention Governing Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa | 16/02/1989 | 09/03/1989 | ||
| African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance | ||||
| African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights | 31/03/1986 | 02/06/1987 | 06/08/1987 | |
| African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child | 27/02/1992 | 20/07/1993 | 01/09/1993 | |
| Constitutive Act of the African Union | 12/07/2000 | 21/06/2001 | 09/07/2001 | |
| Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment | 26/09/2011 | |||
| Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Establishment of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights | ||||
| Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa | 21/06/2005 | 22/07/2005 | ||
| United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment | 04/06/1992 |