Mauritania
| Legal Instrument | Signed | Ratified | Deposited | |
| AU Convention Governing Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa | 10/09/1969 | 22/07/1972 | 04/08/1972 | |
| African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance | 29/01/2008 | 07/07/2008 | 28/07/2008 | |
| African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights | 25/02/1982 | 14/06/1986 | 26/06/1986 | |
| African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child | 21/09/2005 | 14/12/2005 | ||
| Constitutive Act of the African Union | 28/02/2001 | 20/11/2001 | 04/07/2002 | |
| Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment | 27/09/2011 | |||
| Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Establishment of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights | 22/03/1999 | 19/05/2005 | 14/12/2005 | |
| Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa | 21/09/2005 | 14/12/2005 | ||
| United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment | 17/11/2004 |