Sierra Leone
| Legal Instrument | Signed | Ratified | Deposited | |
| AU Convention Governing Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa | 10/09/1969 | 28/12/1987 | 14/03/1988 | |
| African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance | 17/06/2008 | 17/02/2009 | 08/12/2009 | |
| African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights | 27/08/1981 | 21/09/1983 | 27/01/1984 | |
| African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child | 14/04/1992 | 13/05/2002 | 18/06/2002 | |
| Constitutive Act of the African Union | 12/07/2000 | 09/02/2001 | 01/03/2001 | |
| Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment | 26/09/2003 | |||
| 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 | 09/12/2003 | |||
| United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment | 18/03/1985 | 25/04/2001 |