Ethiopia
| Legal Instrument | Signed | Ratified | Deposited | |
| AU Convention Governing Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa | 10/09/1969 | 15/10/1973 | 25/10/1973 | |
| African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance | 28/12/2007 | 05/12/2008 | 06/01/2009 | |
| African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights | 15/06/1998 | 22/06/1998 | ||
| African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child | 02/10/2002 | 27/12/2002 | ||
| Constitutive Act of the African Union | 12/07/2000 | 08/03/2001 | 09/03/2001 | |
| Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment | ||||
| 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 | 01/06/2004 | |||
| United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment | 14/03/1994 |